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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...