Sustainability

Pearl farming itself is actually very environmentally-friendly in a number of ways. As we mainly source from a single family which owns their own pearl farms, we are quite familiar with their farming practices and the lengths they go to in order to ensure sustainability.

As the best pearls are produced by the healthiest molluscs, the farms that our pearls come from use no chemicals and maintain the highest levels of water quality in their cultivating lagoons. They are aided in this by the fact that a single mollusc can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day! In this way, molluscs remove harmful excess nitrogen from the water, adding it to their shell and tissues which aids their growth. This in turn in turn promotes healthier aquatic life and increased biodiversity.

The ratio of molluscs to water volume is also strictly maintained by our growers at an optimum level, in order to avoid throwing the local ecosystem out of balance, making sure the area’s natural wildlife thrives in and around each lagoon.

Molluscs are not discarded after producing a pearl but instead are re- nucleated up to three times. Molluscs reaching the end of their producing life donate their shells as mother-of pearl which can be used in the jewellery and watch industry, as well as used to nucleate younger pearl oysters. The soft tissues of the oyster can either be eaten as a delicacy or dried and used as fertiliser in agriculture.