The coffee forests are a portion of Ethiopia’s moist-evergreen Afromontane forests where wild arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) populations naturally grow. It occurs in the southeast and southwest parts of the country, between 1000 and 2000 m above sea level. These forests are an important part of the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot and home to over 700 species of vascular plants, as well as numerous birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrate species. The coffee forests provide a variety of forest goods and services, including honey, coffee, spices, wild food, medicine, timber, fresh water, and genetic resources. It also offers a variety of regulatory services, including safeguarding watersheds, preserving water quality and carbon sequestration, and maintaining the quality of air. Yet the spread of commercial tea and coffee plantations, logging, settlements, agricultural expansion, smallholders’ coffee management expansion and intensification, and climate change have all put the very existence of the coffee forests in danger. Over the last three decades, efforts have been made to mitigate these threats by creating biosphere reserves, participatory forest management schemes, and other conservation initiatives. Future conservation initiatives must therefore guarantee the sustainable use and management of coffee forests by creating environmental marketing schemes, and participatory development and conservation initiatives.