Explore new worlds and journey deep into the jungle on the adventure of a lifetime!

In this issue of Bare Essentials ‘OUT NOW’ our sports spy gets muddy on a marathon in Costa Rica, we talk tribal sports with the athletes of Last Woman Standing and serve up some Ice Age Appetizers for a Prehistoric Party!

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Bare Essentials unleashes the wild side in people inspiring an adventurous appetite for life and a reconnection with nature. Diverse in topic we delight in the daring and different like learning how to paraglide in Peru or carve a castle out of a carrot!

All you need for a Life of Action can be found in Bare Essentials…

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!

Who gets your Vote?

EPA’s Aging Initiative, Generations United and the Rachel Carson Council, Inc., are pleased to present the finalists for the second annual intergenerational photo, essay, and poetry Sense of Wonder contest. From a Sense of Wonder for the sea, the night sky, forests, birds, wildlife, and all that is beautiful to your eyes this years finalists express a love of nature that will inspire you!

“When we teach our eyes and ears and senses to focus on the wonders of nature, we open ourselves to the wonders around us.”

Register your vote to help decide this years winner!

Legendary Nature Documentarians National Geographic unite technology with the Wonders of a Wild World in one very insightful, ‘to the minute’ news widget!

Exploring nature with a positive curiosity helps create a generation of wildlife warriors who care for and understand how vital it is to protect our planet. In this months mission we introduce Operation Wild Child offering parents an opportunity to encourage their children to appreciate wildlife and feel empowered to take action, knowing their efforts are essential to the future of this earth.

The Mission: Integrate elements of the natural world into everyday family life. Embracing a new action attitude and the wildlife warrior way!

Objective: To help children find their voice and believe in their ability to influence change.

Important Information:
Guide to Teaching Young Children about Wildlife
Educating Kids About Wildlife

Resources: Curious Children make excellent students and information that is interactive offers an engaging platform to study the wonders of nature.  The following list includes quality resources that make learning about wildlife fun!

Websites
ARKhive: A visually rich treasury of natural history for your little ones to explore.
Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures: “Jungle Jack” Hanna takes television viewers around the world, teaching them about animals and having exciting adventures.
CBBC Children’s Animal Zone: Games, wallpapers, lessons in pet care and more.
Wildlife Watch:An environmental action club for kids.

Wildlife Activities for Kids: After site surfing has established a virtual interest in wildlife, its time to take the troops outside for a real life experience in nature.
Wildlife Gardner: explore the backyard and have an adventure at home.
Lets Go Outside: Neighborhood explorers creating memories outside.
Children and Nature: Building a movement to reconnect children and nature.

Become a Fresh Air Family: Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund, a not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer experiences in the country to more than 1.7 million New York City children from disadvantaged communities. Each year, thousands of children visit volunteer host families in 13 states and Canada through the Friendly Town Program or attend Fresh Air Fund camps.The Fresh Air Fund Fact Sheet

Join Operation Wild Child and help raise funds and awareness for wildlife.

“Children are natures first and best defense but it is only through Action that they can make a difference”

OWC Fact Sheet

Bare Essentials “the Ultimate Women’s Action Magazine” is a combination of adrenaline sports, extreme nature and pure action. Unique features including Jane Bond’s Gadget Guide and Indiana Jane’s Travel Journal give our readers a unique twist on the traditional fitness/travel publications currently available.

In the March/April Issue OUT NOW  you will learn how to Train Like the Tomb Raider and sustain energy with an Ancient Trail Mix and other Mayan Miracle Foods!  

Best of All- A percentage of every subscription goes towards Vital Ground, The Cheetah Conservation Fund and The Snow Leopard Trust, so the magazine provides quality resources for active women whilst helping to raise funds and awareness for wildlife!  

Plus- Our site is loaded with bonus resources and interactive material to keep motivation high and inspire the spirit for adventure!

If you have dreamt of a Life without Limits then Bare Essentials is just the guide to get you there!