Animal poo can be fascinating stuff, and give you an idea of what animals are going through your garden or which ones lives in a wood.  

And did you know that animal poo can be made into products to be made as gifts? 

Elephant poo is an example.  The online Paper High has stationery which has been handcrafted from both elephant dung and recycled paper, so producing photo albums, notebooks, greeting cards and memo pads, all excellent examples of recycling! 

The products are handmade, so the colours and designs may vary, but what a lovely idea, to recycle elephant poo and paper! 

There are Colourful Elephant Dung Photo Albums for £12.95 each.



There are colourful Memo Blocks for £9.95 each.

There's an elephant dung writing set too for £9.95.
Just choose the colour you'd like.
It comes with a natural tea wood pencil too:

Made by skilled artisans, the elephant dung comes from the Maximus Elephant Conservation Trust in Sri Lanka!  Their workshops is located in the grounds of the Millennium Elephant Foundation;  the charity cares for sick, elderly and disaled elephants. 

The elephant poo is collected and boiled so that it's sterilised (you'll be glad to hear!) and then it's made into paper. 

The pieces of paper all differ, depending on the diet of the individual elephant.  

An initiative like this just shows how positive a local economy can be for elephants and a charity, and it also helps improve the relationship between the elephants and  local people as the elephants (or what comes out of them) is helping locals in their work. 

These are all available from Paper High.