- Condition: MNH (**)
- Year: 2010
| - Catalogue: |
LPMP |
Scott |
Michel |
| - Number(s): |
1868 |
5183-86 |
6445-48 |
| - Catalog value: |
19,69 Lei |
7,25 $ |
10 € |
- Internal ID: 007_22
- Size: 21x27 mm
- Categories: Endangered animals, Nature.
- DE: Rumänien.
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PROTECTED FAUNA OF THE DANUBE
RIVER
Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamps
issue entitled “Protected Fauna of the Danube
River”.
The global warming, the human being’s intervention in
nature, the destruction of animals’ habitats due to the
uncontrolled development of the building areas, as well as
over-hunting, have caused tens of animals to disappear over the
past century, including in the hydrographical basin of the
Danube.
Considering these issues, the decision to give a new impetus to
the Danubian regional cooperation was launched in 2008 on a common
proposal from Romania and Austria, joined by other riparian states,
including those not-members of the European Union.
The proposal is based on three pillars – connectivity and
communications, environment protection and risk management and also
socio-economic development – similar to the ones adopted in
2009, as part of the Baltic Sea Strategy, the first EU
macro-regional strategy.
The Danube Strategy is foreseen to be adopted during the first
semester of 2011, when Hungary will hold the EU Presidency, and
aims to keep within the EU new concept on territorial cohesion and
to ensure, among others, the development of actions to set up new
cooperation in the environment protection in the whole Danube
Basin. The EU Strategy for the Danube Region will give Romania the
chance of capitalizing the European Union’s policies
opportunities in its addressed areas.
Romania is the host country of the last conference on public
debate of the Strategy for the Danube Region held between 9th and
11th of June 2010, in Constanta. For Romania, the EU Strategy for
the Danube Region signifies assuming the promoter and
initiator’s role of a new cooperation format contributing to
the sustention of the external engagements at regional level,
allowing the economic recovery of the counties in the Danube Basin
and creating new jobs.
Romania is a country with a high biodiversity, both at ecosystem
and species level, providing specific biodiversity conditions
(pedoclimatical and hydrological). Thus, in our country, almost 52
eco-regions can be found, with terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem
diversity specific to the costal and littoral zones of the Black
Sea, of the steppe and forest steppe, of the hill, mountain, lakes,
of the watercourses and their meadows, of the dry areas or the
wetlands, including the specific ones of the Danube Delta.
Fauna theme is in the top of postage stamps collector’s
preferences and this new issue will complete their collections with
the pictures of four protected species: the Meadow Viper (Vipera
ursinii), the European Sturgeon (Huso huso), the Pygmy Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax pygmaeus) and the Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus
crispus).
The European Sturgeon (Huso huso) is the biggest sturgeon and
one of the most valuable fish of the Romanian waters. Its body
appearance is like a thin trunk, elongated towards its head and
tail. Its head is smaller than the body and its snout is short and
soft. The body color is generally gray, and the abdomen is white.
It may live up to 75 years. The sturgeon roe is bigger than the
ones of others sturgeons; a female may lay up to 8 million roe.
The Meadow Viper (Vipera ursinii) is an East-European species
which has a subspecies (V. u. moldavica), only founded in our
country in the Danube Delta and in few small populations in the
center of Moldavia. It is strictly protected because is one of the
endangered fauna species in our country.
Its appearance resembles the one of the Common Viper (Vipera
berus), but the male has a lighter color and it is slightly smaller
with a robust aspect; the maximum length is 60 cm. In August, the
females give birth to 6 up to 20 young, no longer than 15-20 cm
which feed with insects and baby lizards.
The Pygmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmaeus) is a summer guest
bird, especially building its nest, in the Danube Delta; in autumn,
it withdraws into the Southern Black Sea, but also in the
Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, but in winter nests more and more
in Romania, across the Danube and Olt River.
It is usually black with copper hues on the wings and has a
coffee brownish head. The 48 cm long Pygmy Cormorant is
distinguished from the Great Cormorant by its smaller head, its
shorter beak and the longer tail.
It nests with other species, like herons and little egrets,
especially in the low willows. In May-June, the female lays 4-5
eggs which it hatches for almost four weeks.
The Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) as well as the White
Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) are the only European species
encountered together in the Danube Delta.
The Dalmatian Pelican is 160-180 cm long (from beak to tail);
its wingspan is 310-345 cm and it weights about 12 kg. Currently,
there are no more than 400-500 hatching pairs in the Danube Delta.
Its color is white-grayish with curly long nape feathers and
white-yellowish eyes. It builds its nest in small colonies in the
Delta.
The Dalmatian Pelican is an international endangered species
included in the vulnerable category species list.
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