Ellie Pooh to the rescue?
“Now, when not eating or locked in combat, elephants spend a great deal of time pooping — a single elephant will excrete 400 to 450 pounds of dung per day. Hoping to ease the farmer-elephant conflict, Mr. Ellie Pooh, a U.S.-based eco-business, along with Maximus, a Sri Lankan paper producer, are trying to persuade Sri Lankan farmers to see the elephant as a sustainable profit maker rather than crop taker. Enter “pachyderm paper.” (Oddly, this isn’t my first dung-into-dollars sort of post. . .) ” – Plenty Magazine
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December 11, 2008
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Kim, that’s a pretty good utility for a not so nice smelling dung
In fact, in our childhood days the villagers used to dry it and lit it up in the evenings to drive away mosquitoes. And there was also a superstition that if you accidentally stamp elephant dung, kids won’t see any bad dreams at night. Elephant’s tail hair was also used to tie finger rings (sometimes with pure gold lining) to stop having any kind of fear in life.
(I guess they haven’t still figured out how to make somethingthing out of the 200 litre urine that’s wasted per day
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Good to see a lot of Asian elephant stories
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