Our elephant dung paper notebooks make a great quirky but practical gift. They are Fair Trade and perfect for use as a journal or simply as an everyday notebook.

The elephant dung covers are made from 75% elephant dung and 25% recycled paper – yes really! The notebooks are filled with approximately 50 pages of paddy husk paper, a beautiful handmade paper that is very smooth and easy to write on with any pen of your choice. All the paper is acid-free.

The notebooks are handmade by skilled local artisans who complete the designs with a brass elephant motif. Only natural dyes are used.

Each piece is unique, as everything is handmade and the shade and smuttiness of the paper depends on the elephant diet!

Dimensions: 15.5 x 20.5 cm

And click here for the complete elephant dung collection!

Your impact 

Give waste a new life and Be fair to people: All the elephant dung paper used in our products is acid-free and handmade at the Maximus Elephant Conservation Trust in Sri Lanka. Zero waste and fair to artisans in the rural communities who are paid fair wages for manufacturing and also to local villages working at collecting the elephant dung that is used to make the paper.

With your purchase you are also supporting Millennium Elephant Foundation (MEF), a small charity that cares for sick, old and disabled elephants. The foundation is also working to resolve the conflict between elephants and local communities, a critical concern as the elephants' natural habitat decreases and they turn to eating farmers' crops.