On July 5, 2023 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue 4 postage stamps of the series “Invasive species of flora and fauna of Belarus”.
Artist: Alexander Mityanin. Design: Marina Vitkovskaya. Print process: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 12. Stamps size: 40х28 mm. Sheets composition: 5 stamps & 1 coupon. Sheets size: 143х77 mm. Face value of each stamp: М. Print quantity: 45.000 stamps each.
Printer: Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House named after A.T. Nepogodin”.
Chinese sleeper. Catalog number: 1509
Element of protection
Wild cucumber. Catalog number: 1510
Element of protection
Box elder. Catalog number: 1511
Element of protection
Spinycheek crayfish. Catalog number: 1512
Element of protection
A sheetlet is also issued. Sheetlet composition: 8 (2 sets) stamps. Sheetlet size: 182х77 mm. Print quantity: 12.000 sheetlets.
Invasive species of flora and fauna of Belarus (1509, 1510, 1511, 1512). Catalog number: 10001509
Face value M is equal to the air-mail tariff of a postcard abroad.
Invasive species are resettled species whose spread threatens the local biodiversity. Many invasive species are dangerous because they have no natural enemies and competitors in the new habitat, so the number of invasive organisms is growing.
Box elder and wild cucumber presented on postage stamps are characterized by rapid growth and reproduction: annually they produce abundant self-seeding, thereby displacing local plants more and more from their habitat.
Spinycheek crayfish carries crayfish plague. It poses a threat to the destruction of the crayfish population of the Republic of Belarus.
Chinese sleeper displaces other species and reduces their numbers: it eats juvenile fish, large invertebrates and amphibians.
Colour of the postmark – black.
Special postmark and FDC painted by A. Mityanin, designed by M. Vitkovskaya.
A special cancellation on FDC will be carried out at the Main Post Office of Minsk on the stamps issuing day.
4 maximum cards “Invasive species of flora and fauna of Belarus” will be issued too. Artist A. Mityanin. Design by M. Vitkovskaya.
