Sunday 29 August 2021

Endangered

 The UN has a continuing series of stamps up to the present day of 'Endangered Species'.  Things are not getting better and if fact worse so sadly I don't think they will run out of subjects.

2001: Endangered Species (9th Series)

Here are the Speckled Bear, the Laysan duck from the Hawaiian Islands which has been brought back from near extinction with interventions , the Aardwolf, an insectivorous mammal and the Silver Langur or Silver Leaf Monkey. All the FDC envelopes are the same but whereas the Vienna office always uses a double postmark the New York office does not, I don't know why
1994: Endangered Species (2nd Series)
but this particularly large cancel  probably wouldn't fit on the envelope.  Swinging through the trees are Chimpanzees, perched in its island habitat is the St Lucia Amazon parrot, sliding into the water an American Crocodile and alert at the watering place Addra Gazelles
1995: Endangered Species (3rd Series)
The Giant Armadillo from South America, the American Bald Eagle, Fijian Banded Iguana and of course the Giant Panda recently upgraded from 'endangered' to 'vulnerable'..

Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Endangered Species - See It On A Postcard 


4 comments:

violet s said...

Once the stamp fairs start uop again, this is a new theme I want to collect.
The first set is particularly interesting as I hadn't heard of any of the four. The aardwolf looks intriguing.

viridian said...

American alligators and bald eagles have made a comeback. These are beautiful stamps.

Mail Adventures said...

It's true, and sad, that they have always a lot of species to depict on this series. The stamps are great, anyway.

I found some of those animals intriguing, and the armadillos, more than the rest.

Joy said...

No I'd never heard of an aardwolf either, glad to hear of the comebacks, and armadillos are one of my favourites too.