BBC

Don't pooh-pooh it: Making paper from elephant dung

An adult African Elephant produces 50kg of dung from every 250kg of food consumed While elephant poachers are only interested in the animals' tusks, for Kenyan entrepreneur John Matano it is all about ...
Hindustan Times

Monpa tribe look up to e-platforms for preserving hand-made paper-making craft

For the preservation and revival of a thousand-year-old paper-making craft, Arunachal Pradesh's Monpa tribe are looking up to e-platforms. The preservation and revival of a thousand-year-old ...
Hindustan Times

Sutradhara’s Tales: On Pune’s paper-making trail, in letter and spirit

Paper-making technology was learned by the Arab from Chinese prisoners who were captured in attack on Samarkand in 751 CE. This art of paper making eventually spread across Europe and India in the ...
BBC

Don't pooh-pooh it: Making paper from elephant dung

While elephant poachers are only interested in the animals' tusks, for Kenyan entrepreneur John Matano it is all about what comes out of the other end of the world's largest land mammal. This is ...