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Elephant poo paper a hit in Bali
ELEPHANT poo paper is the brainchild of a push to save nearly 30 giant beasts on death row in Bali.
Former Cairns zookeeper Tim Husband heads the project in Indonesia turning hundreds of tonnes of highly-fibrous elephant dung into paper, the Courier-Mail reported.
Most of the 33 elephants at Bali's Safari and Marine Park had to be rescued at the behest of the Government after they were slated for slaughter.
Under the scheme, villagers are employed to cut the grass for the elephants and collect their poo.
"One elephant eats about 180kg of grass every day," said Mr Husband, curator at the park, 40 minutes out of Kuta. "And it produces 100kg of dung a day."
Mr Husband said the pachyderm poo paper was proving to be a big hit with tourists. "This is a way of making work at both ends of the elephant for villagers. And it makes a novel gift for visitors," he said.
One pile of dung makes about 15 sheets of high-quality hand-made paper.
"It is a s---ty job but someone has got to do it," said Mr Husband.
"It saves trees, saves the elephants, and helps the locals."
Read more: Former Cairns zookeeper Tim Husband heads Indonesian project to turn elephant poo into paper | News.com.au
Gives a certain clarity
Gives a certain clarity to the phrase "the news is all shit"
My dearly departed grandmother always used to say "Where there's muck, there's money" I guess this bears true in every sense.
why is the safari park slaughtering 30 elephants? am i the only one who thinks thats an issue.....? or am i reading it wrong? i dont get it.
ok i read it again and get it now. was a bit ambiguos the first time.
Why?
What's going on? Why were the elephants going to be slaughtered? I've visited the Elephant Safari Park several times since its inception, and always thought it was a rather successful enterprise, very well run, and popular with the tourists. The animals were well treated and cared for. Nigel Mason, the owner, whom I have met several times, is surely a dedicated conservationist, and not exactly a money-grubbing capitalist. Can anyone shade some light on this story?
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Daniel
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As hinakos said, the news article wasn't very clear but I think the elephants ended up in the Safari Park because they had been destined for slaughter elsewhere. I'm only making an assumption, though.
I bought some pretty elephant poo paper in India a few years back and gave it as gifts. It was well received, especially by young boys, of course. Are all boys fixated on poo or just most of them?
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Evidently not, according to this article: Indonesian elephants being spared for their poop | The Intellectual Appreciation of Poop Humor | PoopReport.comOriginally Posted by pollyanna
Although I can't confirm this elsewhere..... Most of the elephant herd at the Bali Safari and Marine Park had been scheduled to be destroyed recently. They were not, though, because a man named Tim Husband, originally from Australia, came to their rescue.
... When I visited the park's website here, I was greeted with a slide advertising the park's elephant safari, but I saw no mention of the fact that they had nearly escaped death. I guess this tentative slaughter has not made the cut for their press releases page. Go figure!
I can't believe they actually considered slaughtering them. Hell I would have taken one of their hands, I always wanted an Elephant.
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