Free iPhone App Brings Species Calls, Activism to Your Fingertips
iPhones gone wild?!
The Center for Biological Diversity just launched an innovative application to transform your iPhone into an effective tool for saving the world’s wildest, and most endangered species.
The free app, dubbed Wild Calls, lets users receive an authentic endangered species sound each week (or more often) via “push notification”; users can then download the sound as a ringtone or browse other species sounds and wallpapers, learning facts about endangered species at the same time — and provoking conversations about conservation every time a downloaded ringtone goes off in public.
Said Center co-founder and app idea man Peter Galvin: “Wild Calls allows folks to experience the sounds and images of endangered species and other fascinating wildlife throughout the day, to learn more about the issues, and to take action to protect the environment. Wild Calls helps keep the wild close by, no matter where you are.”
Potential sounds and images include:
Bald eagle
Polar bear
Blue-throated macaw
Whooping crane
Yosemite toad
Wild Calls’ “Wake Up Wild” feature even lets you program a species sound as your cell-phone alarm-clock ring. iPhone users can bring animals into their lives in a whole new way by waking up to the howl of a gray wolf or the eerie song of an orca.
The Wild Calls app is believed to the first iPhone app specifically devoted to the protection of endangered wildlife. The app also allows users to subscribe to Endangered Earth Online, the acclaimed weekly electronic newsletter of the Center for Biological Diversity; to receive press releases in real time as they are issued from the Center; and to respond to action alerts from the Center by signing letters and petitions in support of protecting species, places, and the climate.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national nonprofit devoted to protecting endangered species and wildlife through litigation, science, and creative media. The Center’s free ringtones site, www.RareEarthtones.org, was launched in 2007 and now features almost 100 ringtones, 30 of them available for downloading by Spanish speakers.
Download the application here!
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