” As NGO, World Animal Protection cannot formally endorse a product, but we have worked with CTB, visited plantations from which they source and the standard they use has been developed with our advice and guidance – we see this as a model of how a standard for kopi luwak should look like. Moreover, UTZ Certified has recently banned the use of caged animals for coffee production within their code, meaning that all UTZ certified suppliers of CTB are now checked under this criteria in order to maintain their certification. “
Signed, Dirk-Jan Verdank
Head of Programmes World Animal Protection Netherlands
www.worldanimalprotection.nl
WAP visited the origin company giving advice and guidance for collecting, foraging, and processing of the Wild Kopi Luwak beans. Regarding accreditation, their statement is on black and white and signed by the Head of Programmes, Dirk Jan Verdonk. ( see links above )
CTP, The Coffee Project’s partner in promoting Wild Kopi luwak cares about the source and origin of coffees and therefore cooperated with World Animal Protection (WAP, before WSPA) to develop a way of collecting/foraging and processing which matches the needs of the Luwak living on and around the plantations and the jungle of Sumatra.
Wild Kopi Luwak is collected exclusively from monitored Arabica farmers, therefore all The Coffee Project’s Wild Kopi Luwak is traceable to the Gayo coffee farmer.
There are 131 registered collectors who provide this coffee each of whom forages on their own Certified farm, brings their coffee to a central facility in the village of Berewang Dewal. In this facility collected Wild Kopi Luwak is checked against a quality standard by the Head of Collection.
MORE information on Wild Kopi LuwakTraceability can be found on CTB’s website http://wildgayoluwak.com/traceability/
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