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how’s the relation of coffee companies and environmental NGOs?

few years ago, WWF, through their research in lampung warned the coffee lovers that some of their drinking coffee were illegally grown inside one of the world’s most important national parks for tigers, elephants and rhinos. their research findings showed that the encroachment in the national park for agriculture purpose (in this case mostly dominated by coffee) was the most serious thread for the biodiversity of the park. however, still they asked the international roasters and traders to continue to buy robusta coffee from lampung, sumatra, but develop and implement rigorous chain of custody controls that will exclude all illegal, and unsustainably grown coffee, from the supply chain.