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<hr>The Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding in the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province has asked paper mills to turn the endangered animals' droppings into souvenirs such as post cards and stickers.
Because pandas eat bamboo, their droppings do not smell bad. Pandas at the research base produce more than 100 tons of droppings a year. Transforming the droppings into souvenirs would reduce rubbish and increase tourism earnings, researchers said.<hr></blockquote>

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This is done at the elephant camps in Thailand. I am not sure what the most popular item is, but it might be picture frames. You can get your picture taken on an elephant and then it is framed in paper made from elephant poop.

I don't think the lack of smell has anything to do with the diet of the animals. I believe that the droppings are processed with chemicals so it would not matter.

It makes sense to establish this sort of activity because such items can also be marketed for sales elsewhere in the country and used for advertising.

Ruth

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I agree that it's a perfect example of green economics; why, at the present, the stuff isn't being turned into fertilizer I don't know...perhaps it's not biologically suitable??

But, what I really want is a big pile of panda poo paperweight (I love alliteration!) or to be able to surprise that special someone with a panda pellet brooch or pair of earrings. My mom collects fridge magnets from her world travels, thus the thought in the title of the thread.

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I'm curious how much those souvenirs would cost. That does sound like a kewl idea.
Cheers!

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In Alaska they sell Moose nugget souvenirs of all sorts. It even got to the point that a comic strip (search for "Tundra") ran a sequence of an army of Moose Nuggets tried to take over the country but didn't get past the local bar before everything went south on them.

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