Switch coffee, save birds.


	Switch coffee, save birds.

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2-2-2009 10:07 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ccbf9a36-165e-4961-ba97-de51afec44e0/309AD28D-FA63-4833-B264-F20CFB803BA6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090202/NEWS02/902020314/-1/NEWS05" href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090202/NEWS02/902020314/-1/NEWS05" style="font-size: 11px;">www.burlingtonfreepress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090202/NEWS02/902020314/-1/NEWS05">As a breakfaster, Bridget Stutchbury enjoys a good cup of coffee. As an ornithologist who studies songbird migration, she knows her choice of coffee can make survival more difficult for those birds.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090202/NEWS02/902020314/-1/NEWS05"><P>Coffee in Latin America traditionally was grown under tall forest trees. Shade for the coffee also provides shade and essential habitat for forest birds that fly south for the winter.</P><P>To increase production, growers developed coffee plants that can be grown in full sun, with the help of pesticides. Hundreds of thousands of acres of shade-grown coffee plantations have been bulldozed, replacing complex forest ecosystems with monocultures unfriendly to birds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090202/NEWS02/902020314/-1/NEWS05"><P>Even among birders, he said, there's a low level awareness of the coffee-songbird connection.</P><P><DIV>Stutchbury hopes to change that.</DIV><BR />"If people latch on to shade-grown coffee, seek it out, that one decision can make a huge difference," she said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/309AD28D-FA63-4833-B264-F20CFB803BA6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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