Landscape Lone Elephant Amboseli Reduced to Dust East Africa Three year Drought Kenya 2009

            East Africa and Now into the third year of continuous drought...
Six matriarchs have died. The once splendid elephant herds are decimated. The remaining elephants are traumatized and uncertain at the loss of their learned matriarchs. In drought, elephants don't die of thirst, they die of malnutrition. There is too little protein in what browse and grass is available to support them. It is also the females and young elephant that die first, the males, unemcumbered with young to care for, range more widely and find more food. In more abundant periods this landscape is lush and verdant, covered in tall nutritious grasses and vegetation...Glacial capped Mt Kilimanjaro  sits just across the border in Tanzania. Amboseli National Park. Kenya.
   

Taken in: Kenya / Rift Valley (show map)

Taken on: August 28, 2009

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 860 IS, f/8.0, 1/200 sec, 4.6mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon DIGITAL IXUS 860 IS
Lens:	4.6-17.3 mm
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	4.6mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
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