Special Cover – Olive Ridley Sea Turtle – By India Post WWF’s Mission:- To stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Olive ridley – named for its olive green colored shell, Head is quite small. Carapace is bony without ridges and has [...]
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Special Cover – Gharial Glory Of The River Ganga – By India Post WWF’s Mission:- To stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. The gharial is one of the three crocodilians found in India, apart from the Mugger crocodileand the Saltwater [...]
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Posted in Covers, Fauna, Organisations, Philatelic Covers, Philatelic Items, Special Cancellation, Special Cover 2011, Special Covers, Thematics, Wild Life/Animals/Birds, WWF on Dec 26th, 2011
Special Cover – The Asiatic Lion, Pride of the Nation – By India Post Issued during Gujpex – 2011 Philatelic Exhibition held in December 2011. WWF’s Mission :- To stop the degradation of the planet’s natural enviroment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Date Of Issue:-24.12.2011. Contributed By [...]
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WWF – Lined Seahorse/Hippocampus erectus – Bermuda Seahorses are rarely seen in Bermuda. They can be found in sea-grass bedsand algae-covered bottoms, where they wrap their tails around a plant for support and use their colouring as camouflage. Seahorses can also be seen on mooring lines and around docks. Seahorses are unlike other fish, as [...]
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WWF – Christmas Islands Frigatebird/Fregata andrewsi – Australia The Christmas Island Frigatebird is a very large seabird with a mainly black body, a glossy green sheen to the feathers of its head and back, and varying patches of white on the underbody. It has slender, long wings, a deeply forked tail and a long bill [...]
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Posted in Fauna, Fishes, Miniature Sheet, Organisations, Philatelic Items, Thematics, Water, Wild Life/Animals/Birds, World Stamps, WWF on Oct 23rd, 2011
WWF – Riff Fish/Cephalopholis sonnerati/Cephalopholis argus – Aitutaki in the Cook Islands Fish in the Aitutaki Lagoon have been over netted for years however there are still many beautiful tropical fish amongst and protected from netting by extensive live coral. Even more beautiful tropical fish are on the outer slopes of Aitutaki’s reef. Opercular spines [...]
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WWF – Reef Fish of the Pitcairn Islands Flame Angelfish Centropyge loriculus – brightly coloured, the Flame angelfish are diurnal and feed primarily off sponges and algae. All species are hermaphrodites, starting life as females and changing sex later to males. They are most commonly found between the Hawaiian Islands, Great Barrier Reef and the [...]
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WWF – Grune Flussjungfer/Ophiogamphus cecilia – Weissrussland Ophiogamphus cecilia is a species of dragonfly in family Gomphidae. It is an Odonata family that contains about 90 genera and 900 species. They are commonly referred to as clubtail dragonflies. The name refer to the clublike widening of the end of the abdomen (abdominal segments 7 through [...]
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WWF – Fischkatze/Prionailurus viverrinus - Vietnam Sheet Let of 8 stamps , The Fishing Cat is a medium -sized wild cat of South and Southeast Asia. In 2008, the IUCN classified the fishing cat as endangered since they are concentrated primarily in wetland habitats, which are increasingly being settled, degraded and converted. Over the lastdecade, [...]
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WWF – Macau Birds - China Souvenir Sheet of 4 stamps , Light-vented Bulbu, Spotted Dove, Yellow Bittern, Greater Coucal Date Of Issue:-11.09.2011. PTCS 1.50 , 2.50, 3.50, 4.50 Cost :-Set of 4 Rs 125/-. Contact:-08860120900
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WWF – Malta – Rabbitfish/Chimaera monstrosa Souvenir Sheet with 4 stamps Date Of Issue:-29.04.2011. Cost :-Set of 4 Rs 250/-. Souvenir Sheet Contact:-08860120900
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WWF – Sierra Leone – Forest Puff Adder/Bitis gabonica Sheet Let of 16 stamps with 4 complete sets Date Of Issue:-01.06.2011. Cost :-Set of 4 Rs 200/-. Sheet Let with 4 set of 4 Rs 1000/- Contact:-08860120900
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WWF – Sierra Leone – Forest Puff Adder/Bitis gabonica Souvenir Sheet of 8 stamps with 2 complete sets Date Of Issue:-01.06.2011. Cost :-Set of 4 Rs 200/-. Souvenir Sheet with 2 set of 4 Rs 450/- Contact:-08860120900
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