1.0 link 157430 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/recycled-elephant-poop-pa_n_157430.html Why Harvest Elephant Poop for Paper in Sri Lanka?
To save elephants, of course. It turns out that a tenth of the mere 40,000 Asian elephants worldwide live in Sri Lanka, where they're killed due to their interference with agriculture. There's no major ivory trade, and Sri Lankans don't eat elephant meat, so the sole factor that elephants are being exterminated is because they're a nuisance. Many Sri Lankans have long regarded elephants as dangerous pests that ruin their crops...

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