Our coffee converts old cattle pasture into bird habitat and is a sustainability strategy for our foundation. Currently our sanctuaries cover costs with entrance fees and t-shirt sales to visiting birders. What happens if international bird tourism stops coming to Ecuador?

Selling the coffee we are growing will provide enough income to continue paying sanctuary staff and maintenance costs, guaranteeing our long-term operations and habitat protection. We are carrying out this sustainability strategy along edges of our bird sanctuaries where the forest had been destroyed by earlier landowners. MCF works much of the time right at the edge of the agricultural frontier where marginal cattle farming and slash and burn agriculture is taking away bird habitat. 

Better than "bird-friendly" certified coffee, this coffee helps the birds twice, once by creating habitat and again by helping generate income for our institution which works for the birds in many different ways. 

Learn more about two times bird friendly, bird friendlier coffee, the agricultural frontier and the birds-coffee nexus at Shadier Than Thou Coffee.