Not just any animal. The coffee comes from beans eaten but undigested by the palm civet, a nocturnal, fruit-eating cousin of the mongoose that roams tropical forests. Civet coffee, which some ...

Coffee is not generally considered an exotic beverage — except in the case of civet coffee, a unique coffee that comes from ...

At first the civet coffee trade boded well for these creatures. In Indonesia, the Asian palm civet, which raids commercial fruit farms, is often seen as a pest, so the growth in the kopi luwak ...

This so-called "poop coffee" happens when a small cat-like animal known as a palm civet eats the fruit of the coffee plant.

Often sold in pretty packaging, kopi luwak is made from coffee cherries digested and then excreted by the Asian palm civet, fermenting as they pass through the animal’s intestines. Producers ...

The tourist attractions confine the palm civets — a catlike carnivore ... “but products like shark fin, civet coffee, whale meat and pangolin involve cruelty and, in some cases, illegal ...

whose “coffee beans are selected by the original coffee connoisseur, the Asian Palm Civet,” its website says. “They love to eat only the very ripest, tastiest coffee beans. These beans then ...

Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, civet coffee production has faced increasing ... a report on the conditions of wild-caught common palm civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) at tourist-orientated ...