Forest / Forests / Ecosystems On Stamps

Sonoran Desert sheet from 1999

Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei), and Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia splendens), airmail stamp designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon, and issued for use in Madagascar (Malagasy) on September 20, 1957, Scott No. C58, SG No. 327.

- nethryk

Nice palm stamp nethryk, ironically even though it looks like
a palm Pachypodium lamerei is not a palm.

I saw this interesting program the other day on BBC International
which featured the palm oil industry and it's importance to the
consumer nations of India and China and the producers mainly
Malaysia and Indonesia. Also the effect on Malaysia's Rainforest.
Before this the only cooking oils I had heard of were corn oil, olive oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil,
canola oil etc but never palm oil.

Any way back to forests. Not as colourful as the previous ones
but pretty nevertheless.

Austria issued this set in 1962 featuring it's various forests.
Designer: Adelbert Pilch
Engraver: Rudolf Toth

Scott 685 - 687


Lowland Forest




Deciduous Forest



Coniferous Forest

lithograving - Thanks. Re "palms": Yep, that's marketing for you, akin to renaming Chinese gooseberries (Actinidia deliciosa) "kiwifruit" so they'd sell better!

Here is an image of a stamp designed by the BEP's Charles R. Chickering, engraved by Richard M. Bower (vignette) and G.A. Payne (lettering), and issued by the USA on August 29, 1960 to publicize the World Forestry Congress in Seattle, Washington, held from August 29 to September 10, Scott No. 1156.

- nethryk

The Christmas Island rain forest stamp is a looker.

Here are images of the four values in an attractive set issued by Tunisia on August 29, 1960 to publicize the Fifth World Forestry Congress held in Seattle, Washington, Scott Nos. 378-81. All four stamps were designed by prominent Tunisian artists.

- nethryk

Symbolic forest, designed by Abdelaziz Gorgi (1928-2008), and engraved by Robert Cami.


Man in forest, designed by Jellal Ben Abdallah (1921- ), and engraved by Georges Bétemps.


Tree superimposed on leaf, designed by Ali Bellagha (1924- ), and engraved by Gilbert Aufschneider.


Tree and bird, designed by Hatem El Mekki (1918-2003), and engraved by Jacques Combet.

i have some from France over the past 15 years or so..i hope this qualifies !

Here is an image of a stamp designed by Viktor Antipenko after a painting by Russian landscape artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898), engraved by Semen Ivanovich Aferov (1898-?), and issued by Russia (USSR) on August 29, 1960 to publicize the World Forestry Congress in Seattle, Scott No. 2378, Zagorski No. 2381.

- nethryk

Moldova Europa 1999



Codru Reserve is a scientific reserve in Straseni District, Moldova. It was founded in 1971 and covers an area of 5,177 hectares.

Native of Australia 9th May 1996

Native of Australia- Wetlands 10th April 1997

Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The completion of the park's headquarters facility was celebrated at a dedication ceremony on October 27, 1963, co-sponsored by the Holbrook-Petrified Forest Chamber of Commerce. Here is an image of a cacheted cover prepared to commemorate the event, featuring a map of Arizona and Holbrook, the US National Park Service logo, and a cross-section of a fossilized tree.

- nethryk



US National Park Service logo

One from Germany "Protect the North Sea"