Certified: Products with these seals protect birds, bees and other wildlife
Preserving trees for migratory birds
The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center’s Bird Friendly Coffee certification came about after the center started finding that shade removal on coffee farms was threatening tree canopies that migratory birds depend on. Bird Friendly coffee is an organic, shade-grown coffee certification designed to incentivize the use of agroforests in tropical regions rather than cleared plantation-style farms—the agroforestry approach helps preserve the trees that migratory birds depend on for critical habitat.
Rainforest Alliance also offers a bird-friendly certification, but that has been criticized for being less rigorous than other certification standards, and for being watered down in recent years.