International Year of Biodiversity -
Date of Issue – 14 April 2010
Hi ! The Year 2010 has been declared to be the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations .On 15th April UNPA issued a set of two stamps to mark this special year.The objective of the International Year is to raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity and the consequences of its loss among all.Due to various human activities, increase in pollution has affected the biodiversity of earth to greater extent. It is high time for all to protect the Biodiversity and save plants and animals from extinction. The UNPA has issued another set of 12 stamps in 3 separate blocks on endangered species. This issue also highlights the protection of endangered species throughout the world. These stamps are the gems for the philatelic collection related with Environment nature and Biodiversity. I am pleased to share these all with you as these are also related with one of my favorite themes – Environment ! All the stamps are magnificent ! This is all for Today ! Have a wonderful Holiday !
International Year of Biodiversity
On 15 April 2010, the United Nations Postal Administration issued two new Geneva definitive stamps and two new Vienna definitive stamps on the theme "International Year of Biodiversity". UNPA will issue two more New York definitive stamps on 18 October 2010 to complete the set of six definitive stamps on the topic.
The designs:
The images selected are from the book Art Forms from Nature by German biologist/artist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919).
- F.s. 1,60 A species of arachnid
- F.s. 1,90 A species of starfish
- € 0,05 A species of Hydrodictyaceae (colonial algae)
- € 0,20 A species of boxfish (Ostraciidae)
The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. The purpose of the International Year is to raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity and the consequences of its loss.
We are all an integral part of nature and our fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and their surrounding environments, all over the world.
We rely on this diversity of life to provide us with the food, fuel, medicine and other essentials we simply cannot live without. Yet this rich diversity is being lost at a greatly accelerated rate because of human activities. This impoverishes us all and weakens the ability of the living systems on which we depend to resist growing threats such as climate change.
The International Year of Biodiversity is a unique opportunity to increase understanding of the vital role that biodiversity plays in sustaining life on Earth.
Endangered Species 2010
Date of Issue – 15 April 2010
On 15 April 2010, the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) issued another set of 12 stamps depicting endangered species. These will be the eighteenth set of stamps in UNPA's multi-year Endangered Species series. The series was launched on 3 March 1993 to highlight the need for the protection of endangered species throughout the world. This year the endangered species feature a variety of plants, cacti and trees.
UNPA has issued three sheets of 16 stamps, one sheet in each of the three currencies. Four different endangered species has been illustrated on each sheet. The marginal design of series of different animals on the sheet looks very nice !
Maximum Cards
The thirty-first set of UNPA's maximum cards was also issued on 15 April 2010. Three different cards have been produced to accommodate the three different se-tenant blocks of four stamps . To conform with the maximum cards issued for Endangered Species in prior years, each maximum card will reproduce photographs of the species appearing on each of the stamps in the se-tenant block.
Courtesy - UNPA
