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	<title type="text">Coffee &amp; Conservation</title>
	<subtitle type="text">Are your beans for the birds?</subtitle>

	<updated>2026-01-23T20:39:37Z</updated>

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			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Sips: Site updates]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=3235</id>
		<updated>2026-01-23T20:39:37Z</updated>
		<published>2026-01-23T20:39:37Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Coffee news and miscellany" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[First, a general housekeeping update. A couple months ago, I had to re-do the appearance of C&#38;C due to a theme implosion. The temporary one was awful, but I&#8217;ve now tidied things up considerably.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[K-Cup recycling: I told you so]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2971</id>
		<updated>2025-12-23T15:52:04Z</updated>
		<published>2022-01-15T20:11:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="K-Cups/Keurig brewers: alternatives" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Keurig settles lawsuits regarding the recyclability of K-Cups.]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Deforestation from commodity coffee drags on]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2912</id>
		<updated>2021-10-06T14:21:08Z</updated>
		<published>2021-08-11T14:31:50Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Coffee regions" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Corporate coffee" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Nestlé/Nespresso" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The New York Times Magazine published a well-written account about the ongoing illegal coffee growing in Sumatra&#8217;s Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. The article focuses on the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s investigations into continued forest&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Birders still in the dark about shaded Bird-Friendly coffee]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2896</id>
		<updated>2025-12-19T16:31:40Z</updated>
		<published>2021-03-05T18:34:12Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Certifications" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="best1 - back" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="op-ed cert shade" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A group of authors have an open-access paper in the journal People and Nature, a publication of the British Ecological Society: Tapping birdwatchers to promote bird-friendly coffee consumption and conserve birds. The authors noted&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Know Your Coffee Birds: Red Siskin]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2845</id>
		<updated>2021-03-04T18:15:09Z</updated>
		<published>2020-12-31T16:42:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Birds and other biodiversity" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Know Your Coffee Birds series" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a entry in the occasional Know Your Coffee Bird series, which profiles birds that utilize shade coffee farms. This post is about a species people might not immediately connect with coffee. It is&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Finding Bird-Friendly coffee &#8211; now easier]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2853</id>
		<updated>2022-01-07T13:46:31Z</updated>
		<published>2020-12-21T15:25:09Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Certifications" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Retail and specialty roasters" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Smithsonian Bird-Friendly" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Bird-Friendly website at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has made it easier to find local and online retailers of Bird-Friendly certified coffee. There is an interactive map to find local roasters. I found&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[15 years of Coffee &#038; Conservation]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2861</id>
		<updated>2025-12-23T14:51:03Z</updated>
		<published>2020-12-06T13:42:02Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Housekeeping" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="news - CC" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I made the first post on this website on this day in 2005. I initially envisioned a modest collection of resources explaining the importance of &#8220;shade-grown coffee&#8221; to biodiversity, birds in particular. As an&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Integrated Open Canopy: a land sharing strategy for coffee]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2855</id>
		<updated>2026-01-23T19:50:09Z</updated>
		<published>2020-11-29T17:59:01Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Coffee and the environment" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some time ago, I wrote a detailed post about &#8220;land sharing&#8221; versus &#8220;land sparing&#8220;, two agriculture strategies. In a nutshell, land sharing is the use of cover crops, interplantings, and other measures that seek&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Coffee berry borer update]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2837</id>
		<updated>2021-05-20T11:20:06Z</updated>
		<published>2020-10-26T16:28:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Research on coffee growing" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The coffee berry borer (CBB, Hypothenemus hampei) is one of the most serious pests of coffee. The larvae of this beetle, which is native to Africa, live and feed exclusively on coffee beans. It&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JulieCraves</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[New Rainforest Alliance criteria for shade]]></title>
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		<id>http://www.coffeehabitat.com/?p=2829</id>
		<updated>2026-01-16T16:30:26Z</updated>
		<published>2020-07-28T14:11:02Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Certifications" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="Rainforest Alliance" /><category scheme="https://www.coffeehabitat.com" term="best1 - cert RA" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In 2017, Rainforest Alliance announced they would merge with Utz (another certification), retain the Rainforest Alliance name, and develop a new standard &#8212; the set of rules and criteria required for a product to&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></summary>

		
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