Animals
About fifty Malnad Gidda carrying a number each, the insects a plantation forgets to house, and the pollinators nobody has counted yet.
- Ecosystem EngineersAbout fifty Malnad Gidda as the estate’s biological engine — each passported, grazing the ground it feeds.
- Bug HotelsA plantation can be full of plants and short of homes. Drilled logs, nothing introduced, and a way to see who turns up.
- The Flowering UnderstoryCoffee flowers for about three days a year. What feeds everything else for the other fifty-one weeks is the flowering ground layer, and six invasive plants are taking it.
