Stacks

The Whales & The Lynx

Product Description

This trio of glass and gold bracelets is sustainably and ethically handmade by artisans using tempered glass and stainless steel. The glass bracelets are available in stretch and adjustable cotton styles. 

The stretch elastic measures 17cm / 6.5 inches in length and string cotton adjustable for sizes between 13.5 cms (5.2 inches) and 24 cms (9.5 inches). 

The stainless steel bracelet is handmade and measures 8 inches / 20 cm in length including the 8mm fish lock clasp. Each paperclip link measures 0.35 inches  / 9 mm in length.

This trio of bands plants 30 trees!

Gift packaging - Gifts that give back

Your trio of bands comes in a drawstring fabric pouch with a personalized planting certificate for your 30 trees and gift card on which you can write a message. Your planting certificate can be addressed personally (by hand), and explains how your trees combat global warming to help people and animals alike. The back of your gift card tells you all about Whales and why and how they are endangered.  

Shipping

Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. Shipments are tracked and your tracking number will be sent by email confirming posting of your order. The shipments details for the delivery service you choose are shown on checkout.

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!

Beluga Whales

Beluga whales are also known as the 'canary of the seas' because of the many, strange and wonderful noises they make communicating with each other. Their 'melon' heads also change shape as they communicate. Like Polar Bears they a dependent on the ice flows which they call home and from which they take shelter from Orcas and hunt themselves. With receding ice shelves in the Arctic and Antarctic Belgua populations are now threatened.  

Blue Whale

Blue whales are the loudest and largest of all animals on earth and speak to each other at 180 decibels of noise - a jet engine can only manage 140 decibels! With hearts the size of a Volkswagen Beatle car, Blue Whales weigh up to 150 tons (that's 30 elephants) and eat 4 tons of Krill, shrimp-like creatures, every day. They churn up the seas bringing essential nutrients like Krill, from down deep to the surface to feed and maintain all marine life. All farmers need a plough to grow their crops and the oceans are no different which is why we have Blue Whales, the agricultural ploughs of the oceans. Blue Whales dive to enormous depths and surface again, bringing with them all the wonderful nutrients that lie on the ocean's floors. We will lose at least 30% of the world's Krill this century due to climate change, and we've lost 90% of Blue Whales. Without Blue Whales, the world's oceans and seas would likely stagnate and with an lower estimate of 5,000 we may be in trouble. Once again we see the global food chain in peril. Our blue and gold banded bracelet celebrates their undoubted status as animal royalty. 

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.