Catálogo mundifil n.º 4566 (-10% do valor de selo usado)
2017 - Sobrescrito circulado em correio normal de Lisboa para estoi com dois selos da emissão reintrodução do lince ibérico alusivos à sua alimentação, nomeadamente coelho. Os selos forma obliterados pela marca dia da filatelia datada de 18/08/2017.
On December 16, 2014, the lynxes Katmandu and Jacarandá, born and raised in captivity, started a new period in the history of the Iberian lynx in Portugal, by becoming the first couple of the species to be released into the wild in national territory, a fact that will be honored in the philatelic issue to be launched next April 30, Thursday.
It was in the Vale do Guadiana Natural Park, in the Alentejo municipality of Mértola, that Portugal made its debut in the reintroduction of the Iberian lynx, having been witnessed by government officials, reporters and the attentive eye of the technicians involved, in a program dedicated to the most endangered feline in the world. The lynxes were released on a land of about 1.5 hectares where their adaptation is tested. Only after this test does the effective release take place, although the animals remain monitored through radio broadcast collars.
These animals are one of the dominant predators of Mediterranean ecosystems and assume a preponderant role as a species that can influence the density of other carnivores and contribute to the correction of potential imbalances caused by generalist predators.
In the middle of the twentieth century there was a sharp regression of total herds of the species, due to the loss of habitat, the direct pursuit and the decrease of populations of wild rabbit, the main prey of the lynx. The forecast of the ICNF - Conversation Institute of Nature and Forests, points in the medium term, for the reintroduction of eight to ten animals per year.
The male Kathmandu and the female Jacarandá became history as the first inhabitants of the soft loose enclosure prepared in Mértola, and will also be remembered in a philatelic issue consisting of four stamps and a block: a stamp with a face value of € 0.45 and a circulation of 155,000 copies; another with a face value of € 0.55 and a circulation of 120,000 copies; a stamp with a face value of € 0.72 and a circulation of 145,000 copies; a stamp with a circulation of 115,000 copies and a face value of 0.80 €; and a block with a stamp worth € 2.00 and a circulation of 40,000 copies. The illustration of the stamps was in charge of Fernando Correia.
