Endangered Species On Wwf Stamps

Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), great ape native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, issued by Indonesia on March 6, 1989:




In addition to the set of stamps, two SS's were issued. They became little expensive (70-100 Euro in online selling) although in 1989 I bought the couple for 5-10$ if I remember correctly:

The complete set on a registered cover sent to Switzerland:

Gonepteryx rhamni "Brimstone"
Guernsey.
Sc# 589 1997 37p
Kings of longevity, 10-14 months.

Acipenser Ruthensus (STERLET)

Romania. Sc#3954 1994 150 Lei.

Anadromous populations have been extirpated.

More items of the 1989 Indonesia WWF Orangutan set I posted above;

A set of four official maxi cards:




A cover sent regular to Switzerland franked with three stamps of the set:

Southern Muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides), a monkey species endemic to Brazil. Here is a set of two stamps issued by Brazil on July 2, 1984:

Official Maxi card and FDC issued by the Brazilian post applied with commemorative postmark shows the Muriqui:


Official Maxi cards issued by the WWF stamp agent:

Central chimpanzee or tschego (Pan troglodytes troglodytes), a subspecies of the common chimpanzee, issued by the Central African Republic on April 25, 2012:

As a great fan of engraved stamps, I wondered how many engraved WWF stamps were issued. Looking in my engraved stamps album, I can find only one set issued by Czechoslovakia. I searched the web and eBay and I was surprise to learn there are few engraved WWF stamps like France (first WWF stamp in world, 1969) and Greenland. I sure there are others but not many although hundreds of different WWF set of stamps were issued since 1969.

Here is the only engraved WWF set I have, issued by Czechoslovakia on July 18, 1989 depicting endangered amphibians, designed by Radana Podzemna Hamsikova.

2K. European Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina bombina), engraved by M. Srb
3K. Yellow-bellied Toad (Bombina variegata), engraved by Bedrich Housa
4K. Alpine newt (Triturus alpestris), engraved by Bohumil Sneider
5K. Montadon's newt (Triturus montandoni), engraved by Milos Ondracek

I absolutely adore those Czech stamps,
from when I first spied them 20 years ago.

As a youth, I collected Newts, had a bath in the back garden
with 10-20 Newts. Rocks plants, the whole shebang. Just loved them.

Rod, as one as lived all his life in apartment without a yard or garden, I expressed my love to animals only by collecting animal stamps

The lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, are found in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. This set was issued by Laos on April 3, 2008:





Imperforated Sheet (Note the spelling mistake in the word "World"):

What a lovely sentiment, Eli.
May we respect all sentient beings, I rescued a bee, the other day
it was struggling on the lawn, so I gave it a teaspoon of honey,
and away it went 5 mins later.

I would find it hard, to live without space, a gift that Australia
(used to) offer as a premium.
My Bee hotel, resident frogs, Kookaburras in the trees
sometimes hand feed my Magpies. Resident stumpy tailed lizard.

A quarter of my garden (My friends ridicule me, by calling it a "Blank Canvas")

The Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus or Papio leucophaeus) is a primate of the Old World monkeys, found in Nigeria, Cameroon and on Bioko Island, part of Equatorial Guinea, in rainforest habitats. This set was issued by Cameroon on May 25, 1988:




Three covers franked with the set stamps, sent to Finland and Israel:


Will show more commercial covers as well as a set of Maxi cards.

Here is a set of four maxi cards and three more commercial covers of the Cameroon set of WWF stamps shows The Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus or Papio leucophaeus) I posted above:

The Campbell's mona monkey, also known as Campbell's guenon and Campbell's monkey, (Cercopithecus campbelli), is a species of primate found in the Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. This WWF set and SS were issued by Guinea Bissau in 2013:




issued in a sheet contains two sets:

Souvenir sheet:

Vulpes zerda (Fennec Fox)
Not threatened by extinction apparently.
Yemen Rep of, 1989 (Not mine)



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