Save our cappuccino – Ben Macintyre in The Times

Ben Macintyre has a sobering column in Saturday’s Times:

Most wild coffee species are under threat, with 60 per cent facing possible extinction from shrinking natural habitat, deforestation and climate change, according to researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Wild arabica, the original of the world’s most widely used coffee, has in the past few years been classified for the first time as endangered.

Read the full column, here.

 

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