Civet coffee is highly prized for its unique flavor and rarity, but consumption comes with ethical questions. Wildlife smuggling routes exist all throughout Asia as do criminal smuggling enterprises ...

When civet cats eat coffee beans, they excrete them in clumps (shown) that can later be processed to make a pricey drink. It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly ...

There’s something both fascinating and faintly unsettling about the world’s most expensive coffee starting its journey in an animal’s gut. Known as Kopi Luwak in Indonesia, civet coffee has been ...