Biodiversity and Colombian Coffee Databases

Cenicaf� is a research institute in Colombia, developing new databases of fauna. The Colombian Coffee Federation, of which Cenicafe is a part, has long championed environmentally sensitive coffee farming and has developed a rust-resistant variety and a zero-pollution method of wet coffee processing. Cenicafe's Conservation Biology Programme has carried out studies to characterize the biodiversity of coffee growing regions, and identified the factors that are favourable to bird life, and especially endangered species.They are exploring the opportunities that coffee offers for conservation, e.g. the use of woody ravines as biodiversity corridors.