Endangered Animals As Mobile Phone Wallpapers
The Center for Biological Diversity has added to its existing range of animal ringtones, by offering endangered species wallpapers as well. The Center's endangered species cell phone ringtones have been so popular since they were unveiled in December that more than 60,000 people in over 50 countries have the endangered species calls on their cell phones.
The rareearthtones website features free ringtones of the howls, croaks, chirps, songs and calls, as well as photos of more than 50 rare and endangered animals from around the world. Ringtones and photos of the American pika and half a dozen endangered and rare North American birds were added this week.
The most popular ringtone sounds are the orca and Mexican gray wolf, with more than 10,000 downloads each so far.
"Now you can quickly and easily download a photo of your favorite endangered species and make it the screen image on your cell phone, for free," said Peter Galvin, conservation director with the Center for Biological Diversity. "Download endangered species ringtones and wallpaper at no cost and help educate your friends and community at the same time."
The American pika is a cute, tail-less relative of the rabbit about the size of a hamster that inhabits high elevation mountain peaks in western North America. As the climate heats up due to global warming, the pika is being forced to higher altitudes to find suitable habitats. The pika could be one of the first mammals to go extinct due to global warming, since it will soon have no alpine habitat left.
The website is at www.rareearthtones.org - it is quite USA oriented, but we did a test and the wallpaper alert was sent to our UK handset with no delays. Alas, the 3rd party delivery partner didn't send an image which was the correct size for the handset. Either the handset wasn't in their database (Nokia E62) at the time of testing, or they don't resize images for specific handsets."
Posted to the site on 5th April 2007
