One of the last great rainforests of Southeast Asian, in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in Sumatra, is being felled, to grow coffee. Bad, low-value coffee.
The low-grade robusta beans grown in the area are used to make instant and packet coffee and energy drinks by some of the biggest names in the business, including Kraft Foods, Nestlé and ED&F Man.
So the last refuge for the greatly endangered hairy rhino, and the Sumatra tiger, and the home of wild elephants, goes for a few cans of Red Bull….
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