Leatherback Sea Turtle Ring

Leatherback Sea Turtle Ring

Your Handmade Leatherback Sea Turtle Ring

Your glass and gold beaded Leatherback Sea Turtle Ring is handmade by artisans, who are friends of ours, using tempered glass and stainless steel gold beads.

The Leatherback Sea Turtle Rings are made with stretch elastic in 2 sizes, 'Petite' which are US sizes 7 to 8, and 'Classic', US sizes 9 to 10. 

Every Ring of Courage plants 10 trees to give animals a home, and recycles 3 tonnes of CO2.

Ocean Loving Rings!

You can swim with your Leatherback Sea Turtle Ring, as you should given she lives in the ocean and she won't lose her colours. She's a 'tarnish-free' ring whose place is staying on your finger!

Gift packaging - A Gift that gives back

Your Leatherback Sea Turtle Ring of Courage comes with a gift card telling you all about Leatherback Sea Turtles and why they are endangered, on which you can also write a message as part of a gift.

Also included is your 10 Tree Planting Certificate which tells you all about your Mangrove trees and CO2 recycling.

Your Leatherback Sea Turtle Ring of Courage and gift cards come in a drawstring recycled fabric pouch.

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. 

Leatherback Sea Turtle

The Leatherback Sea Turtle is the closest living relative to the dinosaur and the third heaviest reptile in the world (after two species of crocodile). They grow up to 7 feet long and can weigh 2,000 pounds, that's almost a tonne and they eat jelly fish! The population has declined by 40% since 1980 and there are just 25,000 nesting females left today after being on the planet for over 100 million years outliving every other species. Plastic bags, which they mistake for jellyfish, looks to be their nemesis. Our tempered glass tortoiseshell bracelet seeks to capture some of their magnificence in the colours especially as it captures the light. Leatherbacks, like other sea turtles, are greatly dependent on the Great Barrier Reef.

Sea Turtles

Sea turtles can't retract their heads and legs into their bodies, so their shells aren't really homes as such, more like a shield. And its this armour that's helped them to become one of the oldest living species on the planet today - turtles were trawling the world's oceans over 100 million years ago when T-Rex was hunting dinosaurs on land. Sadly their shield is no match for the threats humanity as introduced into the oceans including plastic bags which they eat mistaking them for jelly fish (their favourite food); discarded fishing nets, which they get caught up in and drown and, of course, they are hunted for meat. But it's Global Warming that will likely determine their destiny. In the oceans, warmer waters are bleaching the reefs destroying the turtles' natural habitats, and on land, the hotter sands in which turtles lay their eggs are producing more male than female turtles. The heat of the sand in which the eggs gestate determines the sex of the hatchlings and, the warmer it gets, the fewer females and the fewer eggs in future. People, the seas and the lands all seem totally aligned against these gorgeous little creatures who've been around forever.