It can be produced without chemicals and provides excellent habitat for a wide variety of plants and animals. Working in cooperation with The Colombian Coffee Federation will demonstrate to the marketplace the possibilities that exist for agroforestry products that conserve biodiversity. Conservation International and the Colombian Coffee Federation will begin by collaborating on coffee projects in the Andes region of southern Colombia. The project region belongs to the Tropical Andes hotspot. Conservation International has identified 24 global biodiversity hotspots with high concentrations of endemic plant and animal species-those species originally found nowhere else on Earth.
Hotspots are also areas under imminent threat of destruction.
Colombia harbors an extremely high concentration of biodiversity. The greatest variety of birds and amphibians in the world can be found in Colombia and only Brazil and Indonesia exceed Colombia in overall plant and animal diversity. CI has projects in 23 countries on four continents.