Industry Leaders 2025:
Tackling civet coffee consumerism
Protecting consumers from coffee fraud, protecting civets from suffering
In our 2025 investigation, we explore the marketing and sale of civet coffee on e-commerce platforms Amazon, Etsy and eBay.
Our first of its kind investigation shows that civet coffee directly breaches UK consumer standards laws and numerous platform policies. Civet coffee is often falsely labelled as wild-collected and welfare-assured, despite there being no current independent certification scheme operating for the civet coffee industry.
We call for Amazon, Etsy and eBay to ban the sale of civet coffee on their platforms, to protect consumers, civets and the planet.
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Industry Leaders 2024:
Tackling the Civet Coffee Tourism Industry
What are the issues of the civet coffee tourism industry?
In our inaugural report, we investigate the advertisement and sale of civet coffee tourist experiences.
Our findings show that civet welfare cannot be met in civet coffee farms or tourist attractions. Tourists are frequently mislead by marketing which hides the true cost of civet coffee tourism to animal welfare, conservation, and human health.
Our report has resulted in leading tourism operators withdrawing the sale of civet coffee experiences from their platforms.
We won't stop there. We're calling on the UK Government to make the sale of civet coffee attractions illegal to protect the interests of animals and UK consumers.
Care for Us Guide
Asian palm civet - captive welfare guide for zoos and sanctuaries
Civets benefit from a varied diet and a stimulating, complex environment with opportunities for climbing, thermoregulation and nocturnal activities.
Although the Asian Palm Civet is classed as least concern by the IUCN, they face significant threat from the civet coffee industry, luxury meat trade, indiscriminate snaring, the pet trade, and human-civet conflict. More and more civets come into sanctuaries every year, and this guide is designed to assist care-givers in their ability to meet optimal civet welfare standards.
The palm civet is now being recognised by the IUCN as three distinct species and this guide should be applicable to all of them.