Kopi Luwak coffee beans also known as civet coffee come from the Asian palm civet, a catlike animal found in Indonesia. Carola Frentzen/dpa Bali's coffee gardens are the perfect place to relax, where ...

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 ...

A recently published study has found that wild felines are exposed to viruses common to domestic cats, such as feline coronavirus. Certain species that frequent oil palm plantations in Malaysian ...

BEIJING — China on Monday ordered some 10,000 civet cats in wildlife markets killed in its southern province of Guangdong after genetic tests suggested a link to a suspected SARS case. Also Monday, ...

It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly expensive coffee that can sell for more than 100 times the price of regular brews, made from beans eaten and excreted by ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A joint China-Hong Kong research team says it has found a genetic link between SARS in civet cats and humans, bearing out claims that the disease had jumped across species, state ...