Category — Elephant Dung

“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

“Brooklyn, NY company Mr. Ellie Pooh, which sells 100 percent handmade journals, stationery, office supplies and various grades of paper made partially from Sri Lankan elephant dung, is the Co-op America’s 2008 Green Business Leader Award winner. ” – CSRWire

“Elephant dung is selling like hot cake at the famous annual cattle fair here for use as a mosquito repellent and also as fuel. ” – RxPG News

“Larson caused controversy by asking team mates to collect elephant dung, saying it was good fuel for the fire, and that any berries in it could be eaten.” – Stuff.co.nz

“As part of its summer Park at Dark program, curators have created a show that engages children and adults in a discussion of how the park disposes of more than 6,000 pounds of daily dung – two and a half dump trucks worth coming from the zoo’s African elephants. ” – SignOnSanDiego.com

“Elephant-dung pages dispose of a massive waste problem profitably” – csmonitor.com

“Mr. Ellie Pooh is called Mr. Ellie Pooh because it offers paper products made of elephant dung in Sri Lanka. Honest” – Calgary Herald

“This lack of innovation, I felt, was something Indian craftsmen really needed to do something about. They need crafts skills as well as entrepreneurial qualities to take their work to the next level. Just as I was thinking of all this, I saw the Haathi Chaap stall. Bright yellow and red flags fluttered in the breeze, all proudly emblazoned with the rear end of the elephant. On display were innovative stationery products, all made with elephant dung paper.” – Business Standard

“Following the footprints of Asia’s majestic beast, Thusitha Ranasinghe, founder of Eco Maximus will be collecting elephant dung from intense human – elephant conflict areas to be turned into paper and sent to over 10 countries around the world. Eco Maximus is venturing into Dambulla trying to add economic value to the animal which is regarded as a pest and detested in the area.’ – The Sunday Times Online

“Believe it or not, these pretty, festive giftwrap sets once came out of an elephant’s rear end.” – Hippyshopper

“A project for the manufacture of handmade paper from elephant dung in north Bengal’s Cooch Behar forest division is at an advanced stage of completion, the required infrastructure is being put in place and the process of imparting training to the staff is underway.” – The Hindu

“DNA Solutions based in London, UK, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to work together with Fauna & Flora International, the world’s oldest conservation organisation, in using DNA fingerprinting to monitor elephant populations in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains with the help of our scientists. Elephant dung is being collected by field biologists and trackers, and transported to DNA Solutions, an accreditated DNA testing laboratory, where the DNA will be extracted and analysed.” – openPR.com

“Cambodia’s agriculture ministry has given the green light to plans to run DNA tests in Australia on 520 dung samples collected in the country’s southwest Cardamom Mountains.” – Herald Sun

“Conservationists said Friday they plan to send some 520 samples of elephant dung to Australia for DNA analysis, hoping the results will help them estimate more accurately the number of elephants in the Cambodian wild.” – International Herald Tribune

“Melbourne scientists are to run DNA tests on elephant dung sent from Cambodia to help work out numbers and monitor wild populations in the formerly war-torn nation.” – theage.com.au

“How green are your company’s credentials – One company is marketing itself by creating a corporate brochure printed using vegetable inks on paper made from elephant dung!” – UTalk Marketing

“A German idea of using animal dung to generate electricity is not about to be adopted in New Zealand where zookeepers say they will stick to using it to make fertiliser and compost.” – New Zealand Herald

” A Sri Lankan firm which transforms elephant dung into beautiful, eco-friendly paper, has won a major global competition which rewards businesses and projects that put something back into their communities.” – agencyfaqs!