Bird-friendly coffee is shade-grown, meaning that it is grown and harvested under the canopy of mature trees, a process that parallels how coffee was historically grown. But with most farms in Central ...

Do you ever go to check on your feathered friends at your bird feeder only to see pesky squirrels stealing all the feed? If you constantly struggle with squirrels in your yard, there are plenty of ...

Two plastic containers of Folger's coffee on neutral background. - Ken Wolter/Shutterstock The three tenets of sustainability are reduce, reuse, and recycle, in that order. So, the next time you ...

Adding coffee to your bird feeder could deter squirrels from stealing their food this spring - however, experts warn coffee ...

Coffee farming has taken a turn for unsustainable in recent decades, putting migratory birds and their native ecosystem at risk. But conservation institutions, including the Smithsonian’s Migratory ...

Help the birds. Buy a cup, or better still a pound of shade grown coffee: We who are concerned about bettering the environment, have many ways, some we have yet to think of, to make improvements. As a ...

New research has found that birds are as picky as coffee snobs when it comes to the trees they'll migrate to for a summer habitat. Migratory birds prefer foraging in native leguminous tree species ...

Shady coffee plantations in Ethiopia, where coffee has been grown for at least a thousand years, hold relatively more forest bird species than any other coffee farms in the world, new research shows.

Since 1970, bird populations in North America have declined by approximately 2.9 billion birds, a loss of more than one in four birds. Factors in this decline include habitat loss and ecosystem ...