East Africa’s coffee sub-sector is facing hard times, with a new study revealing that Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is home to 15 of 75 species that are threatened with extinction.

Already, Robusta and Arabica, the most popular species of coffee globally, are facing a bleak future.

The good news, according to Aaron Davis—a botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens in the UK—is that there are 124 other unknown coffee species that can weather diseases and even climatic changes that have hit Arabica and Robusta hard.

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This rings alarm bells to conserve these unknown species and their habitats as a fall back position to sustain our coffee industry in the long-run