60 Percent of Wild Coffee Species Are at Risk of Extinction (10 of 13) (IMAGE)

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60 Percent of Wild Coffee Species Are at Risk of Extinction (10 of 13)

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Threatened [endangered] wing-fruited coffee (Coffea pterocarpan), western Madagascar. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 16, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.P. Davis at Royal Botanic Gardens in Richmond, UK, and colleagues was titled, "High extinction risk for wild coffee species and implications for coffee sector sustainability."

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[Credit: Aaron Davis, RBG, Kew]

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