And perhaps you know its main claim to notoriety: The drink is brewed from beans swallowed and excreted by civets, small mammals that look something like a cross between cats and weasels.

In Indonesia, the Asian palm civet, which raids commercial fruit farms, is often seen as a pest, so the growth in the kopi luwak industry encouraged local people to protect civets for their ...

Nearby are small farms that collectively housed hundreds of thousands of wild mammals such as civets, ferret badgers and raccoon dogs before the pandemic, farm licenses show — animals that ...

Although unlikely to rival the economic might of India and China or the resources of Russia and Brazil, this motley crew of emerging markets make the CIVETS the next band of countries to profit ...

SINGAPORE – “Every night the civets play and fight in my ceiling… and they poop everywhere," said 83-year-old Mdm Tannie Tan, a resident of Jalan Chempaka Puteh, a neighbourhood in Bedok ...

The B’laan villagers collect and sell premium coffee beans pooped out by wild palm civets in the forests of Mount Matutum. Ensuring the civets can continue to roam the forests unharmed also ...

The tourist attractions confine the palm civets — a catlike carnivore — in small, barren cages and force-feed them coffee cherries, which they partially digest and expel, creating the ...

Four closely related civets, a small nocturnal animal found in Africa and Asia, have made the same geographical area in the rainforests of Borneo home. Typically, closely related animal species ...

What are CIVETS anyway? A Goldman Sachs economist coined the term BRIC ten years ago describing the four big emerging markets he predicted would drive global economic growth: Brazil, Russia ...

Civets produce this “musk” to mark territory and communicate among themselves and other animals. It recently appeared in the news because when the UK’s King Charles III is crowned in 2023 he ...