The Stone crayfish of Slovenia - 2011

 

Slovenia Post has collaborated with WWF organization issued the stamp set features the specific species  of Slovenia, Stone crayfish. The issue comprises of 4 postage stamps and one local official first day cover. All stamp depicted this species in their environment and have marked of WWF logo .

The Local WWF Cover of this stamp series  presented in the other blogs  “Stone crayfish” . This official FDC released together with the issue of  stamps.

Three species of crayfish live in fresh water in Slovenia: the noble crayfish, the stone crayfish and white-clawed crayfish.

The stone crayfish or  Austropotamobius torrentium,  is a European species of freshwater crayfish in the family Astacidae.

It is mostly found in tributaries of the Danube, having originated in the northern part of the Balkan Peninsula..

Its range extends throughout central and southern Europe. In Slovenia it is widespread mainly in the Sava and Drava watersheds, and is less present in the Primorska and Pomurje regions.

Green Snaketail–Belarus

On  August  10, 2010 , Belarus Post collaborated with WWF organization proudly issued the stamp set features the endangered species Green Snaketail, a specific dragonfly that widespread in Europe. The issue consist of 4 postage stamps and one local first day cover depicted Green Snaketail on the bottom part.

Ophiogompus Cecilia is a species of dragonfly from the Gomphidae Family. Its wingspan is up to 7.5 cm and body length up to 5 cm.The Green Snaketail is a very pretty, easily recognizable dragonfly; it combines three colours; Its eyes, head and thorax are green (which becomes deeper and brighter with age), while its abdomen is black and yellow.

The Many-coloured Fruit-Dove

 

 

The Many-coloured Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus perousii), also known in Samoa as Manulua, is a small multi-coloured dove growing up to 250mm in length , as a species of bird in the Columbidae family.

The male dove is a pale yellow-white colour with a red-crimson crown and bar across its back. The female is mostly green and grey on the head and breast with a red-crimson crown and undertail-covert area  as red. These red-crimson coverts differentiate these doves from those of Fiji and Tonga where the coverts are yellow.

Chinese White Dolphin

Hong Kong post collaborated with WWF organization  issued the stamp series of Chinese White Dolphin in 1999. The issued stamp in 4 denomination values with marked WWF logos. Another issue are maxi cards that depicted more detail of this species and local FDC.

The Chinese White Dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis), also called Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin, is a species of the Humpback dolphin and is one of eighty cetacean species.

The adult dolphin is usually white or grey in colour. They exhibit a pink-coloured skin. This colour of the skin is not a result of colour pigmentation, but is actually from blood vessels.

The adult's body length is about 200 - 350 centimetres and the infant's body length is about 1 metre. The average weight of an adult is around 150 to 230 kilograms.

Sea horse of Malta

Malta Post has issued the stamp set features specific species, Sea Horses on four stamp with two denomination value, 6c and 16c.  These stamps issued as a collaboration with WWF organization.The stamps have depicted Hyppocampus hyppocampus and Hyppocampus guttulatus. Both species have distributed in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic sea.

These species has relatively small body and has distinctive body shape, in that its body resembles the head of horse with the tail of a chameleon.

Second posting of queen trigger fish.

These stamps series of Barbados clearly depicted the Queen Triggerfish as known " Old Wife " fish. How a vivid coloured fish and beautiful, but this species categorized as protected animal.

Queen Triggerfish from Barbados

Barbados Post collaborated with WWF issued the stamp set about Trigger fish which known in Barbados as Old Wife, one of the preferred reef fish species.

Trigger fish mainly found in the Atlantic and Indian oceans, commonly found in a near-shore habitats like coral refs, coral rubble and sea grass beds in depth around 275 m. This fish specifically have large coloured body and powerful, with the eyes set high on the forehead. It is an excited coloured fish with a yellow head, body colour varies from purple, blue to green and can pale or darken to match its surroundings. The dorsal and anal fins are tinted in blue.They feed mainly animals living on the seafloor (worms, crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters, and sea urchins).

Black-billed Amazon of Jamaica

 

Jamaica Post collaborated with WWF organization issued the stamp set feature Black-billed Amazon, endemic bird. The issue consist of 4 postage stamp depicted the life of this bird.

Black-billed Amazon, or Amazona agilis, is a parrot endemic to Jamaica. Sometimes called the Black-billed Parrot, this Amazon parrot is mostly green with small patches of red on the wing and sometimes flecked on the head, tail feathers margined blue with red bases to outer feathers. It is size up to 25 cm with bill in black colour.

They feed on fruit, seeds, and nuts, and will take cultivated fruit like mangoes, papayas and cucumbers as well as wild fruits.

The Black-billed Amazon has become much rarer due to deforestation and hurricane damage fragmenting its forest, poaching for food and the pet trade in wild parrots. The population estimated 10,000 - 19.9999 numbers. This species's range is very small, and Bird Life International qualified the species as Vulnerable.

Orang Utan from Indonesia

A local FDC WWF Orang Utan issued by Indonesia on 1989and have special registered on the same date of the FDC issuance date.

The Orang Utans are two dangered species of great ape. These stamps are depict the Bornean Pongo pygmaeus from Borneo Island. There are three species of the Pongo pygmaeus : Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus, Pongo pygmaeus morio, Pongo pygmaeus wumbii.

The total number of this species estimated to be between 45,000 to 69,000. This data was obtained from 2000 -2003. Since recently are steeply down in most places due to logging and burning, it is forecast that current number are below these figures.