I am excited to announce a tremendous conservation opportunity and the launch of Vital Ground’s new Strength of Connections Campaign. This will be Vital Ground’s largest, most ambitious conservation fund raising effort since its founding in 1990. The $2 million campaign will run from now through our 20th anniversary year of 2010.

As we embark on this momentous challenge, I am pleased to report that we have already secured contributions or pledges of nearly $430,000, or close to 22% of our campaign goal. This includes a very generous pledge of support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

This provisional grant up to $196,000 via the Northwest Wildlife Conservation Initiative is specifically to help us secure additional grizzly bear habitat at one of Vital Ground’s premier project areas, Bismark Meadows, located in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho. The grant requires a 5:1 match and must be met by October 2010.

Vital Ground has already acquired two critical parcels of grizzly bear spring habitat in Bismark Meadows. We have a third parcel under option agreement and a fourth is actively for sale. Your contribution today will help Vital Ground bring these two additional properties under conservation ownership, and allow us to continue working to protect other vitally important core habitat and linkages in Grizzly Country.

The online brochure located here describes how the Vital Ground’s Strength of Connections Campaign will address the issue of habitat fragmentation in the northern Rockies head-on by permanently protecting crucial habitat on private lands for the benefit of grizzly bears and other wildlife.

Please help us respond to this urgent conservation challenge and matching grant opportunity by making a secure online donation today.

Thank you!

Endangered Species Day is Friday May 15, 2009.

Endangered Species Day is a great opportunity for people young and old to learn about wildlife, birds, fish and plants in your area and the everyday actions that you can take to help protect our nation’s disappearing wildlife and last remaining wild lands. With more than 1,800 species now listed as threatened and endangered—including the grizzly bear—and thousands more threatened with extinction unless they receive Endangered Species Act protections, all public education efforts are extremely valuable.

Help celebrate Endangered Species Day by learning about endangered species in your area, providing habitat for wildlife in your backyard, visiting your local zoo, aquarium or endangered species habitat.

Vital Ground invite’s you to be an integral part of their wildlife and habitat conservation endeavors and celebrate in a universal dedication to protecting endangered species by making a special contribution.

Special Endangered Species Day Contribution

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This year has been exceptional for Bare Essentials launching in March to a great response from dedicated readers passionate about a life of action. Adventurous soles who invest time exploring the world of natural beauty outside and looking for ways to help preserve it.

Not unlike the legendary Lara Croft Tomb Raider our readers are out to save the world one action at a time with Bare Essentials as their resource for knowledge and inspiration!

To ensure Commitment to Purpose and above all Action, Bare Essentials believes in leading by example and in 2008 set about raising funds and awareness for wildlife, this is B.E.’s work with wildlife review:

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Bare Essentials wishes to pay homage to women wildlife warriors who dedicate their lives to educating and inspiring others to appreciate and enjoy our earth. These custodians of nature devote their time and effort towards establishing sustainable solutions for the preservation of our wild heritage a treasure worth fighting for!

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As of January 2009 Bare Essentials will be charging a yearly subscription fee of $30 with 20% of all purchases going directly to the magazines wildlife ambassadors – Vital Ground, the Snow Leopard Trust and the Cheetah Conservation Fund! That’s right now the Ultimate Action Magazine for Women offers readers the chance to be a part of the action and help preserve our wild heritage! So spread the word, Bare Essentials is inspiring women to live with passion and purpose whilst, giving everyone the chance to support nature!