Coral Reefs

Wakatobi Reef

Handmade with tempered glass & 18K Gold Plated

Your Heart Reef Petite band is hand made by skilled artisans using tempered glass beads with 18K gold plated findings and lobster clasp. The bracelet measures approximately 17cms, 6.7 inches in length.

Your band plants 10 Mangrove Trees to provide a home for marine and land animals, and recycles a whopping 3.08 tonnes of CO2.

Your Personalized Gift Cards

Your Band of Courage comes with an Endangered Animal gift card and a 10 Tree Planting Certificate, both of which can be personalized. They tell you all about your Endangered Animal, your Mangrove trees, and your CO2 recycling. 

Every band comes in a drawstring fabric pouch. 

Your bracelet & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colors in freshwater (not saltwater, please), and should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. 

Shipping

Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown at checkout. 

Wakatobi Reef

Wakatobi is the name given to the Indonesian reef named after a several Indonesian islands which surround the reef and make up 95% of Indonesian and East Asian reefs all of which are endangered. Their full names are Wangi-wangi, Kaledupa, Tomia, and Binongko. Wakatobi is home to over 750 of the world's 850 coral species! Our dusty pink, nude, white and gold banded bracelet sits beautifully alongside its sister, the Great barrier reef, to celebrate these remarkable animal rainforests with thousands of species living in areas larger than most countries!

Coral Reefs (Animal rainforests of the seas)

Coral reefs are the rainforests of the seas - massive habitats for animals supporting more than a quarter of all marine life and well as the hundreds of millions of people who rely on reefs around the world. But unlike rainforests, coral reefs are animals not plants, made up of millions of tiny little polyps. They are a critical to the oceanic food chain supporting the phytoplankten, the small animals which absorb more than half the world's carbon dioxide and produce more than half its oxygen. Climate Change is one of their greatest threats as it heats up the sea which then bleaches the coral and kills it - in plain english, we are cooking our reefs.

Koala & Polar Bear Stack

Handmade with tempered glass 

The Koala & Polar Bear stack is comprises Australia's Koala with the Arctic's Polar Bear. 

Both bracelets are handmade by artisans using tempered glass and 24K gold plated beads, and are available in two styles, stretch elastic or adjustable cotton.

The two bands together plant 20 trees - and it only takes 17 trees to recycle enough CO2 from your breathing to breathe Carbon Free for life. 

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. The adjustable bracelets uses toughened cotton and fits any size of wrist between 13 cm (5.2 inches) and 24 cm (9.5 inches). 

Gift packaging - A Gift that gives back

The set comes in a drawstring fabric pouch together with a planting certificate for your 20 trees. You address your certificate personally (by hand) which also explains how your trees combat global warming to help people and animals alike. There is also gift cards on which you can write a personal message, the back of which tells you all about The Great Barrier Reef and the Wakatobi Reefs.  

Your bracelet & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colours in water although they should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. The 24K gold plated beads should be treated like all gold jewellery (see care guide). 

Shipping

Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown on checkout. 

As a duo, the Coral Reef set can be added to over time with bracelets like the Iberian Lynx, the Polar Bear and a fabric bracelets shown in the images opposite. 

Koalas

Koalas are very contrary animals! They are not bears, they are ‘marsupials’ - animals who carry their young in a belly-pouch, and baby Koalas are called Joeys. Koalas are native to Australia and they don't drink ('Koalas' is actually the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' word meaning 'no drink'), and the food they eat, gum leaves, are poisonous! Laws forbid them from being kept as pets anywhere in the world because of their diet, still, there is little point as they sleep up to 22 hours a day! 

There used to be millions of Koalas and its thought could be as few as 43,000 left today. Despite being ‘vulnerable’ to extinction there aren’t any laws in force protecting their environment although many are trying to help. 

Your band creates jobs for the artisans who made it, and jobs for people who planted your trees; your trees provide a home for animals & recycle CO2 to combat global warming. We can't do this without you, in William Shakespeare's words,'Thanks. And thanks and ever thanks. . . '

Polar Bears

Polar Bears are the largest carnivores in the world and are classified as ‘marine mammals. They can swim for days at a time and are called 'Polar' because they only live in the Arctic at the North Pole. With their habitat at risk from global warming (melting ice) and invasion by oil companies food is also scarce and only 2 in every 100 hunts for food are successful. There are now just 26,000 Polar Bears left. With their blue tongues, black skin and white fur, these magnificent bears grow up to 800 kgs, the weight of 10 men!  Magnificence it seems is no guarantee of survival.

Floreana Coral Reef Stack

Handmade with tempered glass 

The Floreana Coral Reef stack is salute to Floreana Coral which is endangered as a result of global warming and human intervention using the coral to make jewelry. comprises 

Your bracelets are handmade by artisans using tempered glass and 24K gold plated beads, and are available in two styles, stretch elastic or adjustable cotton.

Together your two bands plant 20 trees! 

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. 

Gift packaging - A Gift that gives back

The set comes in a drawstring fabric pouch together with a planting certificate for your 20 trees. You address your certificate personally (by hand) which also explains how your trees combat global warming to help people and animals alike. There is also gift cards on which you can write a personal message, the back of which tells you all about The Great Barrier Reef and the Wakatobi Reefs.  

Your bracelet & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colours in water although they should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. The 24K gold plated beads should be treated like all gold jewellery (see care guide). 

Shipping

Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown on checkout. 

As a duo, the Coral Reef set can be added to over time with bracelets like the Iberian Lynx, the Polar Bear and a fabric bracelets shown in the images opposite. 

Floreana Coral

Floreana Coral can only be found in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador in South America. It's critically endangered and colonies take ten of years to form with some over 1,000 years old. Our Floreana bracelet mimics the iridescent pink of this beautiful coral as it lies beneath the water with its green bands reflecting the zooplankton and plant life on which they depend to flourish. Floreana is a beautiful living animal which is older than every human being living today. The Floreana Coral bracelet is designed to be worn alongside its sister, the Cauliflower Coral bracelet.

Coral

Coral is an animal not a plant and there are almost a thousand species of this colourful living animal in the world today. It's perception as a plant has fuelled its use as a decoration in shops and homes all over the world. In truth displaying coral is no different than using any animal as a decoration. Our set of three coral bracelets is presented with an iridescent green to symbolise the plants which co-exists with these small creatures to create reefs.

The Chunky Lynx & Turtles

The Chunky Lynx & Sea Turtles is a set of three ethically and sustainably handmade bracelets comprising the Green & Kemps Ridley Sea Turtles with the 18K Gold Chunky Iberian Lynx. 

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. The adjustable bracelets uses toughened cotton and fits any size of wrist between 13 cm (5.2 inches) and 24 cm (9.5 inches). 

Your bands plants 30 Mangrove Trees to provide a home for marine and land animals, and recycles a whopping 9.24 tonnes of CO2.

Your Personalized Gift Cards

Your Bands of Courage comes with an Endangered Animal gift card and a 30 Tree Planting Certificate, both of which can be personalized. They tell you all about your Endangered Animal, your Mangrove trees, and your CO2 recycling. 

Every band comes in a drawstring fabric pouch. 

Your bracelet & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colors in freshwater (not saltwater, please), and should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. 

Shipping

Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown at checkout. 

Green Sea Turtles 

Green Sea Turtles are just 2 inches long when they are born and grow up to 5 feet long weighing over 300 lbs as adults, 3x the weight of a human being! They are the second largest sea turtle and eat sea grass and algae, which is why they love nesting in Shark Bay and are colored green! Green Sea Turtles can hold their breadth for up to 5 hours and swim at speeds of up to 35 kph. They saw dinosaurs become extinct and today, 150 million years later, with around 85,000 left, they are at risk of becoming extinct. The heat of the sand in which they lay their eggs determines the sex of turtles, with warmer temperatures producing females, and climate change is creating a shortage of male turtles threatening all species of sea turtles. A group of sea turtles is called a 'clutch' and there are fewer and fewer clutches to be found in the world's oceans as their temperatures rise. 

Kemps Ridley Sea Turtles

Kemps Ridley Sea Turtles are the smallest of the 7 species of sea turtles. They grow to just two feet long and weigh less than 100 pounds as adults. Being so small makes them vulnerable to just about everything humans can throw at them - discarded fishing nets and plastic bags which they eat or get caught up in, the many threats posed by climate change damaging their nesting grounds - eroding beaches - and up setting the gender mix of their population (hotter sand temperatures mean eggs hatch as females not males), and they are hunted for their meat. But their story is one of success at least so far! Numbers of Kemp Ridley Sea Turtles dropped to around 200 females in the 1980s and since then have recovered to a few thousand! Kemp Ridley sea turtles remain endangered but show what can be done when we put our minds to it. 

The Iberian Lynx

The Iberian Lynx is so called because it's made up of links or 'Lynx' and, like the gorgeous feline - the Iberian Lynx - it symbolises, is shades of gold. The Iberian Lynx lives on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and is also known as the Spanish Lynx. It's the most endangered feline in the world today with a population of just 400 left on the planet. It was less than 100 at the beginning of the century, so things are looking up! They have a tawny gold coat and a beard which makes them look very cute indeed! Iberian Lynx's grow to about three feet or a metre and live amongst the trees!

Heart Reef & The Chunky Lynx

Heart Reef & The Chunky Lynx is a set of two ethically and sustainably handmade bracelets. 

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. The adjustable bracelets uses toughened cotton and fits any size of wrist between 13 cm (5.2 inches) and 24 cm (9.5 inches). 

Gift packaging & 20 trees planted

This set comes in its own drawstring fabric pouch together with a planting certificate for your 20 trees. You can address your certificate personally (by hand). There is also a gift card on which you can write a personal message, the back of which tells you all about Heart Reef. 

Shipping

Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown on checkout. Both Express and Standard shipping options are available. 

Copyright & Registered Design

Original design is copyrighted by Bands of Courage.  

Your bracelets & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colours in water although they should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. The 24K gold plated beads should be treated like all gold jewelry (see care guide). 

Heart Reef Bracelet

This unique bracelet is inspired by Heart Reef, a naturally formed coral reef creating an island in the shape of a heart found on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The only heart shaped reef in the world, it measures just 17 meters across. Heart Reef is a living animal made up of trillions of tiny polyps living within the calcium corals, which look like flowers, or 'the rain forests of the seas' as they are often called. When sea temperatures rise 1 degree or more above average, the animal polyps are shocked and forced to leave their coral skeleton home. 90% of the coral skeleton's food is provided by it's resident polyps and if the polyps are away too long the reef starts to bleach and then die! Climate Change is heating the seas, its changing weather patterns and therefore ocean currents, upsetting order within the oceans, and too often killing lifeforms which can't adapt fast enough. Taking over 200 million years to form, this iconic Australian reef is a symbol of enduring love.

The Iberian Lynx

The Iberian Lynx is so called because it's made up of links or 'Lynx' and, like the gorgeous feline - the Iberian Lynx - it symbolises, is shades of gold. The Iberian Lynx lives on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and is also known as the Spanish Lynx. It's the most endangered feline in the world today with a population of just 400 left on the planet. It was less than 100 at the beginning of the century, so things are looking up! They have a tawny gold coat and a beard which makes them look very cute indeed! Iberian Lynx's grow to about three feet or a metre and live amongst the trees!

The Snow Leopard & Golden Polar Bear with the Lynx

The Snow Leopard & Golden Polar Bear with the Lynx is a set of three ethically and sustainably handmade bracelets comprising the The Snow Leopard & Golden Polar Bear with the 18K Gold Plated Lynx. 

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. The adjustable bracelets uses toughened cotton and fits any size of wrist between 13 cm (5.2 inches) and 24 cm (9.5 inches). 

Your bands plant 30 Mangrove Trees to provide a home for marine and land animals, and recycles a whopping 9.24 tonnes of CO2.

Your Personalized Gift Cards

Your Bands of Courage comes with an Endangered Animal gift card and a 30 Tree Planting Certificate, both of which can be personalized. They tell you all about your Endangered Animals, your Mangrove trees, and your CO2 recycling. 

Every band comes in a drawstring fabric pouch. 

Your bracelet & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colors in freshwater (not saltwater, please), and should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. 

Shipping

Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown at checkout.

Polar Bears

Polar Bears are the largest carnivores in the world and are classified as ‘marine mammals. They can swim for days at a time and are called 'Polar' because they only live in the Arctic at the North Pole. With their habitat at risk from global warming (melting ice) and invasion by oil companies food is also scarce and only 2 in every 100 hunts for food are successful. There are now just 26,000 Polar Bears left. With their blue tongues, black skin and white fur, these magnificent bears grow up to 800 kgs, the weight of 10 men!  Magnificence it seems is no guarantee of survival.

Snow Leopards

The 4,000 snow leopards now left on our planet are scattered across 12 different countries! They live alone, which is why there isn’t a name for a group of snow leopards, and individual territories can measure up to 1,000 square kilometers! Snow Leopards are most closely related to Tigers, but they can't roar and instead they chuff, growl, hiss, and mew. Snow Leopards grow up to 4 feet long, with 3 foot long tails, and weigh up to 100 pounds, a third of the size of a Green Sea Turtle! For their size, Snow Leopards are incredibly powerful and can leap distances of up to 50 feet and 20 feet up into the air. Built to live in the harshest of mountainous environments, global warming is changing their habitat reducing the numbers of animals, their prey, on which Snow Leopards depend for food. Your trees combat global warming to preserve the Leopard's snowy the habitats. Thank you for helping these gorgeous very furry cats!

The Iberian Lynx

The Iberian Lynx is so called because it's made up of links or 'Lynx' and, like the gorgeous feline - the Iberian Lynx - it symbolises, is shades of gold. The Iberian Lynx lives on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and is also known as the Spanish Lynx. It's the most endangered feline in the world today with a population of just 400 left on the planet. It was less than 100 at the beginning of the century, so things are looking up! They have a tawny gold coat and a beard which makes them look very cute indeed! Iberian Lynx's grow to about three feet or a metre and live amongst the trees!

Big Hearted Snow Leopard with Lynx

Snow Leopard Population: 4,000

Lynx Population: 1,000

The Big Hearted Snow Leopard with Lynx is a set of three ethically and sustainably handmade bracelets comprising the The Snow Leopard, 3 Hearts hand embroidered fabric band & the 18K Gold Plated Lynx. 

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. The adjustable bracelets uses toughened cotton and fits any size of wrist between 13 cm (5.2 inches) and 24 cm (9.5 inches). 

Gift packaging & 30 trees planted

This set comes in its own drawstring fabric pouch together with a planting certificate for your 30 trees. Enough trees to allow you to breathe Carbon Free for Life! You can address your certificate personally (by hand) which explains how your trees combat global warming to help people and animals alike. There is also a gift card on which you can write a personal message, the back of which tells you all about your endangered animals.  

Your bracelets & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colours in water although they should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. The 24K gold plated beads should be treated like all gold jewelry (see care guide). 

Shipping

Ships 28th November. Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown on checkout. 

Snow Leopards

The 4,000 snow leopards now left on our planet are scattered across 12 different countries! They live alone, which is why there isn’t a name for a group of snow leopards, and individual territories can measure up to 1,000 square kilometers! Snow Leopards are most closely related to Tigers, but they can't roar and instead they chuff, growl, hiss, and mew. Snow Leopards grow up to 4 feet long, with 3 foot long tails, and weigh up to 100 pounds, a third of the size of a Green Sea Turtle! For their size, Snow Leopards are incredibly powerful and can leap distances of up to 50 feet and 20 feet up into the air. Built to live in the harshest of mountainous environments, global warming is changing their habitat reducing the numbers of animals, their prey, on which Snow Leopards depend for food. Your trees combat global warming to preserve the Leopard's snowy the habitats. Thank you for helping these gorgeous very furry cats!

The Iberian Lynx

The Iberian Lynx is so called because it's made up of links or 'Lynx' and, like the gorgeous feline - the Iberian Lynx - it symbolises, is shades of gold. The Iberian Lynx lives on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and is also known as the Spanish Lynx. It's the most endangered feline in the world today with a population of just 400 left on the planet. It was less than 100 at the beginning of the century, so things are looking up! They have a tawny gold coat and a beard which makes them look very cute indeed! Iberian Lynx's grow to about three feet or a metre and live amongst the trees!

The Golden Stack

The Golden Stack is a stack of furry beauties which are ethically and sustainably handmade comprising the Golden Tiger, the Golden Polar Bear and the 18K gold plated Iberian Lynx.

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. The adjustable bracelets uses toughened cotton and fits any size of wrist between 13 cm (5.2 inches) and 24 cm (9.5 inches). 

Gift packaging & 30 trees planted

This set comes in its own drawstring fabric pouch together with a planting certificate for your 30 trees. Enough trees to allow you to breathe Carbon Free for Life! You can address your certificate personally (by hand) which explains how your trees combat global warming to help people and animals alike. There is also a gift card on which you can write a personal message, the back of which tells you all about your endangered animals.  

Your bracelets & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colours in water although they should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. The 24K gold plated beads should be treated like all gold jewelry (see care guide). 

Shipping

Ships 28th November. Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown on checkout. 

Golden Tigers

Golden tigers are sometimes called a golden tabby tigers or strawberry tigers, and their colour is caused by a gene. There are just 3,900 Tigers left in the world of which 3,000 are to be found in India. Golden Tigers, of which there are perhaps 30 left, are in fact Bengal Tigers. 

Polar Bears

Polar Bears are the largest carnivores in the world and are classified as ‘marine mammals. They can swim for days at a time and are called 'Polar' because they only live in the Arctic at the North Pole. With their habitat at risk from global warming (melting ice) and invasion by oil companies food is also scarce and only 2 in every 100 hunts for food are successful. There are now just 26,000 Polar Bears left. With their blue tongues, black skin and white fur, these magnificent bears grow up to 800 kgs, the weight of 10 men!  Magnificence it seems is no guarantee of survival.

The Iberian Lynx

The Iberian Lynx is so called because it's made up of links or 'Lynx' and, like the gorgeous feline - the Iberian Lynx - it symbolises, is shades of gold. The Iberian Lynx lives on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and is also known as the Spanish Lynx. It's the most endangered feline in the world today with a population of just 400 left on the planet. It was less than 100 at the beginning of the century, so things are looking up! They have a tawny gold coat and a beard which makes them look very cute indeed! Iberian Lynx's grow to about three feet or a metre and live amongst the trees!

Leopard Love

Leopard Love is a stack of furry beauties which are ethically and sustainably handmade comprising the Snow Leopard with the 18K gold plated Iberian Lynx and three hearts.

Sizing

Your stretch bracelets measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length. The adjustable bracelets uses toughened cotton and fits any size of wrist between 13 cm (5.2 inches) and 24 cm (9.5 inches). 

Gift packaging & 30 trees planted

This set comes in its own drawstring fabric pouch together with a planting certificate for your 30 trees. Enough trees to allow you to breathe Carbon Free for Life! You can address your certificate personally (by hand) which explains how your trees combat global warming to help people and animals alike. There is also a gift card on which you can write a personal message, the back of which tells you all about your endangered animals.  

Your bracelets & care

The tempered glass beads will hold their colours in water although they should not be exposed to perfumes, chemicals, cosmetics and the like. The 24K gold plated beads should be treated like all gold jewelry (see care guide). 

Shipping

Ships 28th November. Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and details for the delivery service you choose are shown on checkout. 

The Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard is a solitary cat living at altitudes over 4,000 metres above sea level on steep cliffs and mountains where their habitats are under threat from Climate Change and global warming - they live in the snow and its disappearing! 

Snow Leopards are built to live in freezing conditions - their fur grows up to 12 cms (5 inches) in length and their tails, which can be over a metre long, are designed like scarves to keep them warm as they nestle in the snow. Their feet are, of course, designed like snow shoes.

Measuring up to 5 feet in length and weighing up to 500 pounds, Snow Leopards are more closely related to Tigers than leopards. That said, they cannot roar and their meow is described at a high pitched piercing yow which can be heard for miles.

There are somewhere between 4,000 and 6,500 Snow Leopards left in the world and the combination of Climate Change and deforestation caused by agriculture are bringing these beautiful cats into ever greater contact with humans - and the rest is history! Snow Leopards are no match for man. 

The Iberian Lynx

The Iberian Lynx is so called because it's made up of links or 'Lynx' and, like the gorgeous feline - the Iberian Lynx - it symbolises, is shades of gold. The Iberian Lynx lives on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and is also known as the Spanish Lynx. It's the most endangered feline in the world today with a population of just 400 left on the planet. It was less than 100 at the beginning of the century, so things are looking up! They have a tawny gold coat and a beard which makes them look very cute indeed! Iberian Lynx's grow to about three feet or a metre and live amongst the trees!