ITASY, Madagascar (Reuters) - In the rich volcanic soils of central Madagascar’s Itasy province grows a rare and fragrant coffee coveted by bats and humans alike. The twist: humans want it even more ...
If you’ve had a cup of coffee recently, the plants it grew on may once have been home to bats and other threatened wildlife. It turns out that when coffee plantations encroach on natural forest ...
Bats play a bigger role than birds do in controlling tropical insects, and the loss of bats might mean that morning cup of coffee gets more expensive, researchers said on Thursday. Subscribe to read ...
Intensive agriculture is taking a toll on bats in the Western Ghats of India, one of the world's most biodiverse regions, but shade-grown coffee, remnant rainforest patches and riverine vegetation ...
"We wouldn't have coffee, we wouldn't have chocolate. We wouldn't have tequila without bats. That should be enough,” one biologist says. Bats get a bad rap but the people who study them want to revamp ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---If you get a chance to sip some shade-grown Mexican organic coffee, please pause a moment to thank the bats that helped make it possible. At Mexican organic coffee plantations, ...
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Attention coffee drinkers! There’s a new trend sweeping your caffeinated world. It’s called bat spit coffee and, yes, we’re serious. This involves bats chewing on ripe coffee ...