Planting and the use of herb plants have grown to be a trend in recent years. To showcase the enchanting beauty of these multipurpose plants, Chunghwa Post is issuing a set of four stamps featuring Mentha × piperita, Rosmarinus officinalis, Salvia elegans, and Artemisia indica.
published June 12th, 2013
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This stamp issue is the fourth in the Australian Birds series. It focuses on pardalotes, a family (Pardalotidae) of foliage-gleaning, mainly insectivorous birds native to Australia and sometimes known as “peep-wrens” or “diamond birds”.
published June 4th, 2013
After what seems like a lifetime of rain and cold, we are seeing the first stirrings of spring in the island and when the sun comes out in Guernsey, so do we.
published June 1st, 2013
To celebrate World Oceans Day on 8th June, the OETP, in association with the Monaco Oceanographic Museum,
published May 16th, 2013
Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education.
published May 12th, 2013
World Oceans Day was officially recognized by the United Nations in 2008 and is now celebrated on 8 June each year.
published April 19th, 2013
“Three things are beyond me; four I cannot fathom: How a Vulture makes its way over the sky…”
The Griffon Vulture, the Bearded Vulture, the Lappet-faced Vulture and the Egyptian Vulture are all scavengers which have been making their mark on the Israeli landscape since biblical times. The Vulture is mentioned 28 times in the Bible and it served as an ancient symbol of royalty both in Mesopotamia and in Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs. Anyone who has seen flocks of vultures soaring along the top of a cliff in the Golan Heights, the Judean Desert or the Negev Desert cannot help but be impressed by their strength and beauty. Maimonides was known as “The Great Vulture” and for good reason. These birds played an exceedingly important role as “nature’s orderlies” within the food chain, preventing the spread of disease and plague, thus ancient peoples treated them with great respect.
published April 10th, 2013
Falconry is the hunting of wild quarry in its natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. There are two traditional terms used to describe a person involved in falconry: a falconer flies a falcon; an austringer (German origin) flies a hawk (Accipiter and some buteos and similar) or an eagle (Aquila or similar).
published April 9th, 2013
The Tamaraw (Bubalus Mindorensis) is a small and shy buffalo, also known as wild dwarf buffalo. It has a pair of relatively straight backward pointing horns which are extremely stout.
published April 1st, 2013
The new stamp and first-day cover depicts violet iris flowers. The print run is 500,000 stamps, the denomination – LVL 0.35 and EUR 0.50, corresponding to the cost of mailing a regular letter within Latvia.
published March 28th, 2013
Three popular Finnish garden berries have been chosen as the theme for the strip of three stamps.
published March 23rd, 2013