The Polar Bears & White Rhino
Polar Bear Population: 22,000
African White Rhino Population: 2 (North), 10,078 (South)
Handmade with tempered glass
This stack combines the Spirit Bear with friend, the Polar Bear and the White Rhino who has come to visit. Each bracelet is handmade by artisans using tempered glass beads with a multiply stretchable cord to give them elasticity, allowing you to slip it on and off easily.
The bracelets each measure 17cm / 6.5 inches in length.
Each set plants 30 Trees recycling 9.24 tonnes of CO2 to make you Carbon Neutral for a year.
Your Personalised Gift Cards
Your Bands of Courage come with Endangered Animal gift cards for both your animals and a 30 Tree Planting Certificate, all of which can be personalised. They tell you all about your Endangered Animals, your Mangrove trees, and your CO2 recycling.
Every stack comes in a drawstring fabric pouch.
Your bracelet & care
Go flying, swimming, showering or whatever you wish with your Spirit Bear, Polar Bear and White Rhino, why would you want to take them off, they're ocean proof and tarnish proof.
Shipping
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Polar Bears
Polar Bears are the largest carnivores in the world, a title once held by T-Rex and, uniquely for a bear, classified as ‘marine mammals' as they swim long distances. They are called ‘Polar’ because they only live at the Arctic North Pole. With their blue tongues, black skin and white fur, they grow to over 800kgs and 12 feet long! But being the biggest predator on the planet is no guarantee of survival. Global Warming is melting their home, the Arctic, at a rate of 13% every 10 years so they’ll have nowhere to live by 2100. Food is becoming scarce with only 2% of hunts being successful. There are just 26,000 Polar Bears left, let’s hope they don’t go the way of their forebears, T-Rex!
White Rhinos
There are 5 species of Rhino with populations - The Sumatran (30), The Javan (18), The Greater One-horned Rhino in India (2,100), The African Black (3,142) and The White Rhino which has 2 populations in Africa - The Northern Population (2) and the Southern population (10,078). Weighing over 3 tonnes, White Rhinos are the 2nd largest land animal after elephants and are named after the Africaan’s word ‘wyd’, which means wide, because of their square shaped lips. Their principal threat is being hunted for their horns which are prized for medicinal purposes. Their horns grow up to 7 cms (3 inches) a year and are made of Keratin, like our hair and nails. Their horns, their principal source of protection in Nature, has become their Achilles Heel where humans are concerned.
The Spirit Bear
The Spirit Bear is also called the Kermode Bear, which is a subspecies of the Black Bear and lives in the coastal regions of British Columbia in Canada. Kermode Bears can be black or white, it's the white ones who are the so-called Spirit Bears. The Kermode Bear was given its name after a Canadian naturalist, Francis Kermode, which has now entered the vernacular as meaning 'black bear'. According to the Kitasoo legend, Raven, The Creator of the world, made a pact with the bears making every tenth bear white, to remind people of the ice age. This reminder of harsh times, when the world was decimated by ice, should be a reminder to us all of what could lie ahead lest we cure our ways and tidy up our planet.
