Brought to you in partnership with family-owned coffee roasters, Genovese, Coffee for Wildlife is your new feel-good brew. Every bag sold supports projects that empower people to live in harmony with forests and wildlife.

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Choose your origin

All Coffee for Wildlife products are 100% Arabica beans and roasted in Melbourne by Genovese. 

Our coffee is shade-grown in Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, and Sumatra. By growing coffee plants beneath the shade of established native trees, not only do our partners produce higher quality beans, but they also maintain and can even help to protect forest habitat for wildlife. 

Your coffee can have a real impact

Making the switch to Coffee for Wildlife means you will support projects, people, and environments around the world. 

Papua New Guinea

This coffee is grown in the cloud forests of the YUS Conservation Area (Yopno-Uruwa-Som) on Papua New Guinea’s rugged Huon Peninsula, and is sourced through the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program. Around 1,000 families farm the coffee, and all have pledged to protect portions of their land as habitat for wildlife, such as the Endangered Matchie’s Tree Kangaroo.

So far, community members have committed to conserve over 180,000 acres of land as habitat.  

Sumatra 

The Sumatran beans are sourced from the Orang Utan Coffee Project, who work with 350 smallholder farmers in seven villages located in the Gayo Highlands in Aceh.

Each of these villages borders on the internationally significant Leuser Ecosystem, an approximately 1-million-hectare area that is the last place on Earth where rhinos, tigers, elephants and orangutans all still roam. The Orang Utan Coffee Project aims to protect wildlife by preserving the remaining rainforest habitat of the Leuser Ecosystem. 

A portion (50 Euro cents per kg of green beans) of exports is also directed to support the work of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program.

Ethiopia

The Ethiopian beans grow wild and through minimal intervention beneath tree canopy in Afromontane forest in an area called the Bench-Sheko zone, in the country’s southwest. This is the birthplace of Arabica coffee, where the plants originated and were first domesticated. These forests are of global importance for the genetic diversity of Arabica coffee.

The coffee is sourced via a long-standing initiative – the Community Conservation of Wild Coffee and Natural Forest Management Project – that supports the community-based conversation of wild and minimal-intervention coffee.

The partners on this project are the Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association and the University of Huddersfield.

One of the central aims of the project is to empower local communities to manage forest resources profitably and develop sustainable uses for non-timber forest products like coffee, Ethiopian cardamom, and honey, to increase household income. The main beneficiaries of the coffee growing are 79 local communities with forest management groups.

The project works directly with over 6,000 families who are involved in the forest management groups and at least 30% of the core positions of the forest management groups and co-ops are occupied by women.