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“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

“A few members of Edmonton-based Voice for Animals yesterday dropped off packages of “elephant dung cookies” at city hall for councillors and the mayor.” - edmontonsun.com

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

“While a box of elephant poo may not seem like the sort of thing you want sitting on your windowsill (especially on a hot day), if you have some patience then this one will sprout you your very own banana plant.” - SmartPlanet.com

“Indians might be squeamish about paper made from �elephant poo� � as the stamp on the sheets declares � but Shekhawat has found that it is a hit abroad. The paper is exported to Germany and the UK.” - The Telegraph

“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

“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

“The elephants at the Cincinnati Zoo eat hundreds of pounds of food a day.But it’s not what goes in that makes up poo poo paper, it’s what comes out. ” - KLTV 7

“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!

“You’ll remember that the sensational boulder-cam uncovered the amorous antics of lions in the wild, then become a marital aid for bears in the wood. Well, dung-cam outdoes its predecessors by shooting uninhibited shots of the biggest beast of all, the African elephant.” - -theage

Elephant Dung Paper