2021 IRELAND NEW ISSUE EUROPA ~ENDANGERED NATIONAL WILDLIFE~FDC-BUREAU

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******COVID UPDATE ON IRISH STAMPS ISSUED IN 2021****************
ALL IRISH STAMPS THIS YEAR WILL BE ISSUED IN SELF-ADHESIVE FORMAT
AND FIRST DAY COVERS ISSUED BY AN POST WILL HAVE NO INSERT CARD
BUT WILL NOW HAVE PRINTING ON REVERSE OF COVER.
Ireland:  2021 Europa~Endangered National Wildlife~Bureau FDC
May 6th 2021: Two new stamps from An Post celebrate Ireland’s rich and rare natural wildlife. The stamps
are part of the EUROPA series in which postal administrations across Europe produce stamps to a central
theme bearing the EUROPA logo. The chosen theme for 2021 is Endangered National Wildlife.
Endangered natonal wildlife broadly refers to species that are threatened with extinction.  In Ireland, the
Wildlife Act is the principle mechanism for the legislative protection of species that have significant
conservation value. The stamps are designed by Jenny Dempsey and beautifully illustrated by
Shevaun Doherty.
Thought to be extinct in Ireland and Britain, the White Prominent Moth was rediscovered in
Kerry in 2008.  The Freshwater Pearl Mussel is on the verge of extinction in Ireland and western Europe.
The Moth stamp carries an ‘N’ for national postage across the island of Ireland while the Freshwater
Pearl Mussel stamp shows ‘W’ for worldwide letter postage.  Both stamps feature on a beautiful
First Day Cover (FDC) souvenir envelope which includes an illustration of the rare Kerry Slug
only found in the south-west of Ireland, and in Spain and Portugal.
This is the Official Bureau FDC