Participating farms have designated more than 100, 000 hectares as conservation areas, and 99% have not converted any natural forest areas to coffee production since the C.
That is no argument for human carelessness, environmentalists insist: species can adapt to almost anything over millions of years, but man's activities, such as scraping the ocean floor with nets, cause unbearably abrupt changes to ecosystems which are as delicate, complex and fragile as any Brazilian forest.
