Leatherback Sea Turtles

Leatherback Sea Turtle

Handmade with tempered glass

This bracelet is handmade by artisans using tempered glass and is available in two styles, stretch elastic or adjustable cotton.

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

Gift packaging - A Gift that gives back

Every band comes in its own drawstring fabric pouch together with a planting certificate for your 10 trees. You 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 Leatherback Sea Turtles and why they are endangered.  

Your bracelets & care

Go flying, swimming, showering or whatever you wish with your Leatherback Sea Turtle. Why would you want to take her off, she's ocean proof and tarnish proof!

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 Turtles

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 it is 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 has introduced into the oceans including plastic bags which they eat mistaking them for jellyfish (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 female than male turtles. The heat of the sand in which the eggs gestate determines the sex of the hatchlings and, the warmer it gets, the fewer males born and therefore fewer eggs in future. People, the seas and the lands all seem totally aligned against these gorgeous little creatures who've been around forever.

Great Barrier Turtle Stack

Handmade with tempered glass 

The Great Barrier Turtle stack comprises Australia's Great Barrier Reef with the Leatherback Sea Turtle for whom the Great Barrier Reef is home. 

Your Great Barrier Reef and Leatherback glass bracelets are handmade by artisans using tempered glass beads, and are available in two styles, stretch elastic or adjustable cotton.

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. 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 the Turtle and home and why they are both endangered.   

Your bracelets & care

Go flying, swimming, showering or whatever you wish with your Great Barrier Reef and Leatherback, why would you want to take them off, they're ocean proof and tarnish proof. 

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. 

The Great Barrier Reef

Population: In the 2021 / 22 Australian summer season a low flying aircraft surveyed a total of 719 reefs on the Great Barrier Reef and found that 654 reefs of them, 91%, “exhibited some bleaching.” The Reef is not classified formally as "endangered' although it is widely reckoned to have this animal status. Estimates quote 50% of the reef as still living.

Coral reefs are the rainforests of the seas and Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the Amazon of the Seas. Over 2,300 kms long, it is the largest living thing on earth and home to 600 species of coral, 6 species of turtles, 215 species of birds, 17 species of sea snakes and more than 1,500 species of fish. Like the Amazon it is being destroyed by a combination of human beings and global warming with over a third of its coral now destroyed.

Three-quarters of the world’s coral species can be found on the Reef thriving on a massive colony of tiny polyps, trillions of living creatures we collectively call coral which also absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. Rising sea temperatures are bleaching (killing the coral) rather like cutting down trees, and destroying this marine habitat and the animals with it including the Phytoplankton, the small animals which absorb more than half the world's carbon dioxide and produce more than half its oxygen. Humans are as dependent on Reef as the animals that live there, so the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest marine rainforest.

Our turquoise and white bracelet with its gold and pink beads reminds us of what its like to look into the waters around the reef and see this marine continent of colour, life and beauty.

See - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/world/australia/unesco-great-barrier-reef-danger.html 

The 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.

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.