Our 50th anniversary stamps
To celebrate our 50th anniversary, and the work that we carry out to protect species and habitat around the world, Royal Mail have released a set of commemorative stamps.
The release includes 10 first class stamps of threatened species and a special miniature sheet of four stamps exploring the habitat and species of the Amazon, all printed on FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) paper.
Threatened species stamps
Every day, species are becoming extinct at up to 1,000 times or more the natural rate. We are working with international organisations, governments and local communities to conserve the world's ecosystems and threatened species such as the tiger, polar bear and rhinoceros that are featured on the stamps.
Use our interactive map to see where the species featured on our 50th anniversary postage stamps are to be found.
Amazon stamps
The vastness of the Amazon rainforest is hard to imagine. It covers 6.7 million square kilometres (2.6 million square miles) – and if it were a country, it would be the seventh largest in the world.
WWF has been working in the Amazon for more than 40 years. The array of natural life found here is genuinely astonishing – not only its millions of trees, but also its spectacular wildlife. This includes four species celebrated in Royal Mail’s special Amazon Alive miniature sheet – the hyacinth macaw, spider monkey, poison dart frog and jaguar.
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