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Frequently Asked Questions

  1. What is Africa-Dragonfly website about?
  2. Why creating this website?
  3. What do you find on Africa-Dragonfly?
  4. How can you participate?
  5. How to post a photo?

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What is Africa-Dragonfly website about?

Africa-Dragonfly is dedicated to dragonflies and damselflies (i.e. Odonata) found in the Oriental Region.

The site offers access to a database of photos taken around African countries in the Oriental Region and links to other sources of information on Oriental Odonata.

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Why creating this website?

While browsing the Internet, we found a lot of information on Odonata. Two major websites are useful portals: one for Europe (http://fly.to/dragonflies) and a second for USA (www.dragonflies.org).

But for Asia and African species, not many websites have been established. So we try to fill this gap. We also would like to offer the possibility forget people sharing the same interests to get to know each others (join our mailing list).

With the help of Keith D. Wilson (Asia) and and Klaas-Douwe "KD" B. Dijkstra (Africa), two "sister websites" have been set up:

To meet our objectives, we need your support. Have a look further down.

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What do you find on Africa-Dragonfly?

  1. A database of pictures taken in Africa. The identification of the subject is given without guaranty as, often, a photo is not sufficient to establish the species. Discussion is open!
  2. A species list which allow you to query by taxonomic names, geographical areas...
  3. Books and references (URLs) are listed.

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How can you participate?

  1. You can directly contribute by submitting your own pictures. To do so, please refer to "how to post a photo". Attention: original pictures only (no scan from books: that's cheating :-)
  2. If you have encountered an interesting link on the Internet, please send us a mail.
  3. Maybe the subject of a photo is not correctly identified... Post us a remark.

All suggestions are welcome: write us a mail.

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How to post a photo?

You have a couple of pictures of dragonflies from an African country and you would like to share them? This site is for you.

Your first action is to register. This is completely *free* and all data is used on for/by this site only.

Once registered, you can log in and access to the private part of the site.

To post a picture, you need to scan it on the JPG format and you need to indicate some information like where and when you have taken this photo.

CAUTION: Don't cheat! Only your original pictures can be posted. No scan from books or magazines. On the other hand, you can mail us the reference to this document.

Lear more here.

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