Fw: (Thailand)Factory opening to manufacture elephant dung paper in bulk

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An elephant conservation centre in Thailand is to start making paper from

elephant dung.

 

The Lampang Elephant Conservation Centre is opening its own factory to

manufacture paper in bulk.

 

The centre, at Lampang, looks after more than 80 elephants and all profits

will go towards their care.

 

Each elephant produces several kilos of fibrous dung a day, which is said to

be ideal for making paper.

 

Nipakorn Singhaphutharakul, who runs the centre, told the Thai Rath

newspaper that experiments at producing paper had proved very successful.

 

Contacts had already been made with businessmen at home and abroad and

several had shown an interest in buying the paper.

 

It is not the first original money-raising venture at the centre which also

sells abstract art painted by its elephants.

 

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