Looking good feels fantastic. Doing good? Even Better!
“But how can we make both happen at the same time?”

Kate Hudson award winning actress and animal advocate partnered with David Babaii and WildAid to bring the first line of haircare products that support animal rights advocacy to the world’s attention.

WildAid by David Babaii celebrates beauty in nature by encompassing all earths elements to create a line of natural hair care products with heart. Nourishing ingredients with resonating value not only for your hair but the future of our precious wildlife.

A firm commitment to protecting the environment lead David to develop an innovative new line of styling products with an exclusive blend of exotic natural and renewable ingredients. Rich Cupuacu butter from the South American Amazon, nutrient rich super volumizing volcanic ash from the Vanuatu islands of the South Pacific, Blue Algae, and Polynesian White Ginger (to name but a few).

The products are free of sulfates, parabens, petrochemicals, animal products and of course, free from all animal testing. Even better, ten percent of all profits go to WildAid, the global wildlife conservation organisation, to help save endangered animals. So the benefits truly go beyond beautiful hair!

Now when you do something great for your hair, you’ll also be doing something great for the planet. It’s beautiful to be good.

So if you want to purchase a pure product that preserves all things precious visit David Babaii for WildAid.

About WildAid

WildAid is a non-profit organization that works with governments and communities of the world to reverse the devastation of our planet’s wildlife. Our mission is to end the illegal wildlife trade within our lifetimes, allowing threatened species to recover to safe levels. WildAid’s goal is a world in which local communities can improve their lives without destroying their environment, and where humanity can survive together with wildlife for generations to come. WildAid public service messages are seen each week by over one billion people around the world, and in addition to Kate Hudson, include such notable supporters as Jackie Chan, Harrison Ford, Ralph Fiennes, and Yao Ming and many world champion athletes.

Rapid City and the Black Hills are hosting the World’s Toughest Human Endurance Competition beginning this Friday August 14th and ending on Sunday August 23rd.

At 600 miles and ten days in length, Primal Quest Badlands will be the longest and toughest adventure race in history. Thirty seven co-ed teams of four from fourteen different countries will be competing for $175,000 in cash and prizes.

The course is riddled with demanding physical challenges including trekking, mountain biking, paddling, swimming, spelunking, and climbing over a distance of 600 miles. Along the way competitors will race through lands where dinosaurs once roamed, run in the footsteps of Native American Tribes, passing herds of wild buffalo and navigate through the endless towering spires, rock faces and waterways of the Badlands National Park.

Teams will be equipped with the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger™ which sends location-based signals via communications satellite allowing for real-time public viewing on SPOT enhanced Google Maps™, MyTopo Maps, and an innovative race leaderboard for team position and race course check-point updates.

Due to the remoteness of the race the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger™ will also provide competitors and race staff with satellite-based messaging and emergency communications independent of cellular networks to assist with on-course safety.

“SPOT revolutionized the adventure racing experience last year in Montana not only for the athletes but also the race staff and fans around the word,” said Don Mann, Primal Quest director.

“For the first time ever extreme adventure racers have a tracking device that is light-weight and rugged enough to withstand the punishment of this race and reliable enough to provide location-based tracking of the teams online. SPOT is invaluable for race logistics and safety but also opens up the adventure racing world to fans who want to share the experience and see where their favorite teams are at any moment.”

New this year is the integration of www.SPOTadventures.com SPOT’s new online social community providing additional team profile information and individual team tracking history allowing viewers to monitor their favorite team in real-time.

SPOTadventures.com will allow the Primal Quest teams to document and share their race experience with others after the race by uploading geo-tagged photos, writing blogs and archiving their race maps and location data history.

The DVD will be available later this year from Race Day Films.

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!

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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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!

The Wildlife Warrior is someone who dedicates their energy and directs their actions towards a nobel purpose, ‘to preserve and protect our wild heritage’.  When you vow to take action on behalf of animals and the environment you become a Force for Nature and an important part in world conservation!

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