Endangered Species On WWF Stamps

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an international organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of world fauna, flora, landscapes, water and soil. Among the WWF issues, it concerned with the protection of endangered species. These species are at risk of becoming extinct because they are either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental parameters.

To raise awareness to the endangered species issue, countries issue stamps depicting endangered animals and plants of their region. The WWF emblem, the Giant Panda, appears on the stamps.

One of my main thematic collections is about primates (Apes, monkeys and prosimians) in all aspects, including endangered primates on WWF stamps. Here I will show the issued WWF stamps and items I have in my album. I will show mainly monkeys but also several sets show other endangered species I have in my collections. Please, join me and show your WWF stamps and items.

Hi Eli,
your image shows all Fauna, but you prefer only Primates here?

Rod,

I collect only monkeys hence I have stamps about endangered monkeys on WWF stamps. The set I showed in my first post was only for introduction. From now I will post only monkeys. But no problem to post other WWF stamps, so we have one thread for all kind of species.

OK Eli, if you are sure.
I have about 50 WWF, absolutely none on Primates,
which was a surprise.
Mine are all sorts, not as nicely presented as up to your standard.

Algeria, Scott Nr 872-875 (1988)

Rod, I changed the title of this thread to general one so please, I will be glad to see yours and other members WWF stamps. No matter my standard, your scans are great and I like your posts in all areas.

youpiao, thanks for the Algerian sets. Next time I will show usage of this set and other items related to it.

Here is a nice cover sent from Algeria to HK in 1990 franked with two copies of the Barbary Macaque WWF set that youpiao posted:

Usually, a set of four maxi cards and a set of four FDC's were accompany each WWF set issued. These maxi cards and FDC's were issued by an agent (I think in Switzerland) with a permission of the postal authorities, so they are legitimate philately items.

Here is the set of four maxi cards of the Algerian Barbary Macaque:

1985 Denmark Cinderellas.
Varfluelarve (Spring Fly Larvae)


Croatia


And a cautionary tale.
BATUM Badger
No funds going to charity here, I suspect, rather lining pockets.
At least it serves as a promotion for the WWF.

Thank you very much, Rod! Love the Panda Cinderella!

Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), issued by Rwanda on March 25, 1985. Stamps were designed by the Belgian artist André Buzin who designed many stamps for Belgium and Ex-Belgian colony countries:





First day of issue postmark:

Denmark.

Finland.

Australia
Sc#2535 2006

Here are the set of Maxi cards of the 1985 Rwanda WWF Gorilla set I posted above:

As I have written in the first post, my main collection is Monkeys and most of my WWF sets show monkeys, but I have several WWF sets with other animals in my countries collections, Israel and Laos. Here is one set from Israel issued on February 7, 2011 shows Persian's Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor):

Vanuatu
Maximum Card, with due concordance.
Dugong
Female Dugongs give birth every 3 to 5 years, twins are very seldom.

Red-tailed monkey or Schmidt's guenon (Cercopithecus ascanius) and the moustached guenon (Cercopithecus cephus), issued by Angola on August 30, 2011:

Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis larvatus), endemic monkey to the southeast Asian island of Borneo, issued by Brunei on March 31, 1991:




A set of four official Maxi cards: