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MobileActive on the wires...

March 4, 2007 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
endangered species, mobileactive, peace on earth through ringtones, ringtones, USA today

The story on an environmental organization offering ringtones with the sounds of endangered species -- save the frog with a free ringtone - that we wrote about a while back, was picked up by the Associated Press and made it to some national papers a few days ago. 

Susan Montoya from the AP wrote the story that was featured in media such as US News and World Report:

"Amid the cacophony of cellphone ringtones these days, add these: the clickety-click-click of a rare Central American poison arrow dart frog, the howl of a Mexican gray wolf and the bellows of an Arctic beluga whale. An environmental group is hoping that the more people hear these sounds from threatened animals, the more they'll wonder where they came from — and question the fate of the animals and birds that make them.

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Center for Biological Diversity

file under:
endangered species, Environment and Ecology, ringtone
operates in:
United States

contact:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/

The CFBD offers free ringtones and wallpaper for mobile phones to promote endangered species awareness. According to their website,

The non-profit Center for Biological Diversity offers you free ringtones and phone wallpapers of rare and endangered animals, a collection of high-quality, authentic sounds and images of some of the world’s most threatened birds, owls, frogs, toads and marine mammals. Download their haunting hoots, sensational songs and crazy croaks to your mobile phone, for free.

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The Center for Biological Diversity is a national non-profit conservation organization dedicated to the protection of imperiled species and their habitats. Find out more about the Center for Biological Diversity’s work to protect endangered species and wild places.