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A royal discovery
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 03/06/2019
» A decade ago when a male elephant was brought from the southern province of Krabi to live in an elephant conservation centre in Maha Sarakham in the northeast, only Khruba Thammunee Thitadhammo, a monk who founded the centre, believed that it was a white elephant.
Great game
Life, Published on 17/01/2019
» A nine-seat aircraft smoothly took off from Wilson Airport in Nairobi. The view gradually changed from the urban area with jam-packed roads, tall buildings and a large ghetto to farmlands, bushy and red land without any homes or tall trees.
The new black gold
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/08/2018
» Canadian Blake Dinkin is the creator and owner of the world's rarest and most expensive coffee, refined naturally by elephants — Black Ivory Coffee. Partnering with Ban Taklang in Surin and the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, Dinkin produces "elephant dung coffee". However, production of Black Ivory Coffee provides valuable income for elephant care-giving families, as well as students who are taught how to wash and dry the coffee. The mission of Black Ivory Coffee is to take a negative situation, namely human-elephant conflict and turn it into a positive one by creating a luxury product that helps not hurts elephants, as Dinkin tells Guru.
Coffee with a difference
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 17/04/2013
» When Blake Dinkin first developed Black Ivory Coffee, he thought it was going to be as simple as feeding coffee cherries to elephants, allowing them to be digested and excreted, and the outcome would be even better coffee beans. He was wrong.
Ridiculous headlines of 2012
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 14/12/2012
» As 2012 winds down, now is apparently the time we're supposed to look back and reflect on the year that was. However since many of us probably can't even remember what we did last night (always a sign of a great night), it seems we may have to turn to the news to refresh our memories on some of the more interesting things that have happened in the last 12 months.
Elephant dung brew offers coffee lovers something to sniff
Published on 09/12/2012
» CHIANG RAI - "It's slightly floral," British tourist Ian Nuttall said, sniffing his tiny cup of Black Ivory Coffee.
Coffee from elephant dung, sir?
AFP, Published on 25/10/2012
» For those who like their coffee with a strong nose Thailand could be the ideal destination, after a blend made from beans found in elephant dung was put on sale by an upmarket hotel chain.
Coffee from where the sun don't shine
Published on 21/04/2011
» An expensive and exotic luxury coffee has its unlikely origins in the nether regions of one of the most cute and furry creatures of Southeast Asia, the civet.