Coffee trade threatens rare species

Is it too latte for Sumatra's lowland forests?

TOM CLARKE

"If we do not act soon, our next cup of java may have the bitter taste of extinction." So says Timothy O'Brien, an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bogor, Indonesia.

In a report published today, O'Brien and fellow conservationist Margaret Kinnaird warn that unregulated coffee prices are threatening precious forests and their endangered inhabitants on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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