Stamps by countries | Europa | UN-Geneva | 1995
CITES. Endangered Species (4 stamps in set).

Stamp: Wood bison (Bison bison atabascae)
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 0,80 f.c.
Date of issue: 1995 Mar. 24
Depiction: Wood bison, Cow with calf (stamps in sheet - 6, 8, 14, 16)
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalk-surfaced
Designer: Sibylle Erni
Perforation: comb. 12,75:12,5
Printing process: offset
Size of a stamp (mm): 39,2×28,6
Size of a sheet (mm):
Sheet composition: 16 (4×4) stamps
Printing run: 730 000
Stamp issuing authority: United Nations Postal Administration
Printer:
  Special cancellation (ink - black) and art envelope were used in first day of issue.
 
  Silhouettes of animals are on margins of the Miniature Sheet including of Bison.
     
  On other stamps of the Miniature Sheet are:
0,80 f.c. - Crowned Lemur (Lemur coronatus);
0,80 f.c. - Giant Scops-owl (Otus gurneyi);
0,80 f.c. - Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus varius zeteki).
Themes: wood bison (Bison bison atabascae), fauna, nature protection
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