If you both love the rainforest and keeping animal ivory on real animals where it belongs, you'll love our hand-carved Tagua Raindrop Pendants from Ecuador. Tagua nut, a renewable rainforest seed that grows from the Amazon's Tagua Palm Tree, is widely regarded as vegetable ivory for its likeness to real animal ivory, but with animal and habitat-friendly properties. With the growing scarcity of animal ivory, Tagua has become a highly valued commodity by artisans and consumers alike. The pendant measures 1 1/2 inches x 1 1/2 inches x 18 1/2 inches long. The colors are achieved by boiling the tagua in eco-friendly and plant-based dyes. Handmade in Ecuador and fair trade imported. Ecuador, the smallest of South America's countries, owes its unique biodiversity to its geographical setting and climate; a hybrid area of Pacific Coast beaches, sweltering rainforests, the UNESCO-protected Galapagos Islands, and the snow-capped volcanoes of the Andean highlands.