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Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation

Our relationship with nature not only defines our history, it shapes our future, too. Yet beneath the surface of Iceland’s fjords, an industrial fish farming method threatens to destroy one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses. Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation tells the story of a country united by its lands and waters, and the power of a community to protect the wild places and animals that helped forge its identity.

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Responsible Wool Standard

All the farms we source virgin wool from are RWS-certified, which promotes standards for animal welfare and land management.

Why

Wool is a natural fiber that insulates, breathes and lasts for a long time. Producing wool, however, is a resource-intensive job. It requires vast amounts of land for grazing sheep, water to clean the fiber, chemicals to treat the wool and dyes to color the finished product. In addition, not all wool supply chains provide humane treatment of animals, which is why Patagonia relies on the Responsible Wool Standard to source the wool in our products.

Where We Are

Starting in 2014, Patagonia began working with the Textile Exchange and other brands, suppliers, animal-welfare NGOs and farmers on developing the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS). Ultimately, we adopted this standard as our baseline requirement for farmers. We also developed our own Patagonia Wool Standard (PWS), which goes above and beyond the RWS. You can read more about the Patagonia Wool Standard here.

The RWS has created a solid standard that recognizes the best practices in animal welfare and land management that farmers are implementing. This globally available standard covers farm-level practices including handling, nutrition, shearing, medical treatments and sustainable grazing methods.

One hundred percent of the farms we source virgin wool from are RWS-certified. Moreover, the entire supply chain that processes the wool has strict chain-of-custody practices in place to ensure that the wool we sell came from certified farms and is not mixed with fiber from other sources.

What’s Next

We continue to work with the Textile Exchange and other brands to improve on the standard in future iterations.

As of March 2020, there were more than 170 RWS-certified entities, from farms to brands, in 23 countries worldwide. This is a striking achievement considering the relatively recent launch of the standard. We hope that over time the standard will account for a sizable component of the wool industry and will prove to consumers that wool can be produced using humane and environmentally sustainable methods.

The success of the RWS shows how cooperation among brands, buyers, processors and farmers can quickly change the sourcing landscape for the better. It also shows that farming methods can change to include best practices for animal welfare and land management, and that these farms are recognized and rewarded by the rest of the industry.

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