Tweets - this response is from Ashley Parkinson, who is the Campaign
Coordinator for Seattle Audubon's Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ashley Parkinson [mailto:ashleyparkinson at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:12 PM
To: laurenb at seattleaudubon.org
Subject: Coffee article

I agree--after one gets past the headline and first
few paragraphs, it's obvious the article is just
saying that shade coffee isn't for every species
(not a new concept by any means).

But we know that rustic shade coffee is one of the
lowest-impact farming practices occuring in Central
America right now, and there is clear evidence that
shade plantations are far better for most birds than
sun plantations.

The mission of the Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign
(and other conservation campaigns working on this
issue) is to keep shade plantations from being
converted to sun (or other more destructive forms of
agriculture), but clearly no one is saying that
shade plantations are better than native forest or
that we should be converting native forest to shade!

Ashley Parkinson

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R.J. Cannings & M. Holm
> [mailto:mholm at vip.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:18 AM
> > To: tweeters
> > Subject: Re: shade grown coffee study
> >
> >
> > I didn't find the shade-grown coffee report
> > mentioned yesterday on
> > Tweeters
> > "discouraging" at all. It's obvious to anyone
> > seeing a shade coffee
> > plantation that it would not be suitable for every
> > last bird species in
> > Central American forests. The point is that shade
> > coffee plantations
> > are
> > far, far better for birds in general (and probably
> > long-distance
> > migrants in
> > particular) than the essentially sterile sun
> coffee
> > plantations that
> > dominate the scene. I would certainly be
> surprised
> > to see a Ruddy
> > Woodcreeper in any coffee plantation, but to
> witness
> > the foraging of
> > hundreds of warblers, tanagers, orioles and
> > hummingbirds in blooming
> > Inga
> > and Erythrina trees in the simplest of shade-grown
> > plantations is enough
> > to
> > warm the heart of any caffeine addict.
> >
> > Dick Cannings
> > 1330 Debeck Road
> > S11, C96, RR#1
> > Naramata, BC V0H 1N0
> > CANADA
> >
> > (250) 496-4049
>
>


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Ashley Parkinson
Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign Coordinator
Seattle Audubon Society
8050 35th Ave. NE
Seattle WA 98115
206-706-7827
www.seattleaudubon.org

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