SISSAI x ARBIO: What we choose to protect
A piece of jewelry can tell you where it comes from. It can also say something about what we choose to preserve.
At Sissai, we have always believed that knowing the origin changes the way we value things.
Knowing where a material comes from, who crafted a piece, or the story behind a stone brings us closer to a more conscious way of understanding jewelry. One where design is not separate from nature, but deeply connected to it.
Today, we want to take that idea a little further, together with ARBIO Peru, an organization dedicated to the conservation of the Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios. Thus begins an initiative that seeks to turn a daily choice into a concrete action for nature.
The value behind a choice
A piece of jewelry can accompany us for many years.
That is why we believe its value can also go beyond what we see: toward the materials we choose, the hands that create it, its origin, and the decisions behind it.
At Sissai, upon purchasing specific gold jewelry in our stores, you will be able to contribute to the protection of 1,000 m² of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest for a period of one year, together with ARBIO.
During that time, your choice will be linked to the conservation of a forest area that is part of one of Peru's most valuable ecosystems.
A story that begins with a piece of jewelry handmade in Peru and continues in the Amazon that we are helping to keep standing.
It is not about creating something new.
It is about helping something that has existed for hundreds—and in some cases thousands—of years to remain.
Because no individual decision will solve the great environmental challenges we face on its own. But every decision can signal what kind of future we want to support.
And we believe that choosing to protect is also a way to begin.
Keeping the forest standing
When we talk about sustainability, we often think about recovering, offsetting, or replanting. But there is an action just as important: conserving what is still there.
A standing forest is a living ecosystem, interconnected with nature for hundreds or thousands of years.
They are trees, plants, and species that depend on one another. It is water, soil, and biodiversity. They are spaces that store histories prior to our own, and whose value cannot be measured solely by what we can extract from them.
ARBIO works in the Las Piedras River basin, in Madre de Dios, taking care of an expanse of Amazon rainforest through ongoing conservation, monitoring, and research work.
And it is precisely that perspective that connects with something we deeply believe in at Sissai: nature does not need to be transformed to have value.
Sometimes, protecting simply means allowing something to remain.
SISSAI × ARBIO Peru
1000 m² of Amazon rainforest.
A decision to keep it standing.
