Coffee beans may extinct

More than 60 percent of wild coffee varieties are threatened with extinction due to deforestation, climate change and the growing problem of insect pests – portfolio.hu wrote on the basis of the warning of researchers.

According to London’s Kew Gardens experts, the threatened species include the most common arabic coffee’s (Coffea arabica) wild relative as well. 60 percent of the 124 coffee types of the world are threatened with extinction. Eimear Nic Lughadha from Kew Gardens called this indicator “extremely high”. Previously only 22 percent was estimated. (portfolio.hu, MTI)