Free ebook: "Ten things you can do right now to improve your wildlife photography" by Will Burrard-Lucas!

Professional wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, best known for the Beetlecam and his stunning footage of the Luangwa Valley in Zambia, has released a new ebook. "Ten things you can do right now to improve your wildlife photography" is available for FREE. Thx & kudos Will!

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Free eBook "Earth As Art" (by NASA): Satellite pictures of Southern Africa & East Africa

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a free eBook called "Earth As Art" in wich the agency is presenting images of our planet taken by various NASA satellites. The 158-page book comes for free as an eBook (pdf) and can also be purchased as a printed version (US$44). It covers satellite pictures from around the world, including fascinating pictures of locations in Southern and East Africa. Enjoy!

Southern Africa

• Kalahari Desert  p. 62
• Brandberg Massif (Namibia) p. 20
• Erongo Massif (Namibia) p. 44
• Namib Desert (Namibia) p. 90
• Ugab River (Namibia) p. 140
• Okavango Delta p. 96 (Botswana)
• Bombetoka Bay (Madagascar) p. 18

East Africa

• Triple Junction p. 138
• East African Rift (Kenya) p. 36
• Mount Elgon (Kenya/Uganda) p.86

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Safari Tips 101 - Malaria Advice: Travel Precautions to Take!

1. First of all you should check if the area you are going to visit is actual malaria infested. Remember – there are large parts of Africa which are malaria free!
2. If you are going to visit a malaria infested area consult a doctor or a travel clinic. They will provide you with all kinds of info about the medication to take.
3. Listen properly to what the doc is telling you and follow this. Stick to the schedule without forgetting to take your pill(s).
4. Get yourself a mosquito net. They are not uber expensive and usually very light.
5. Get yourself a mosquito repellent once you are there. Ask at a local pharmacy for their best selling one and you'll get a good one.
6. Mosquito coils are usually doing a good job. They are burning for up to eight hrs. and Mosquito hate them. OK, some people don't like the smell of it, but you should give it a try!
7. Never forget that mosquitos are attracted to light. Switch off the light when going to bed and keep reading in bed to a minimum as the light of your torch will also attracted those nasty little creatures.
8. Clothing – shorts and shirts are no problem at all during the day, but during dusk and dawn you should wear long trouser and a jumper/long sleeve. Mosquitos are most active during dusk and dawn.
9. You are on safari and not on a big night out, so don't use too much perfume / after shave. Mosquitoes are more attracted to it than anyone else around you.
10. Stick to the rules, don't forget to take your medication and don't think that you will not get Malaria just because you just read this list!

Malaria is really nothing to joke around with. It is one of the major killing diseases in Africa – around 350–500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide each year, and over one million people die of it. As a visitor to malaria infested regions you are at risk of getting the disease. The right precautions will minimize the risk, but it will not give you 100% protection.

Typical symptoms of malaria are:

• fever
• chills
• headache
• nausea
• vomiting

If you have such symptoms and you are in a malaria are or you have been to one recently it is very important to see a doctor and to get tested. Malaria needs to get treated as early as possible to prevent something worse from happening.

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