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PROTECTED FAUNA AND FLORA IN THE KRKONOŠE MOUNTAINS |
ISSUE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE MINIATURE SHEET |
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| Date of issue: | 22. 6. 2005 | |
| Face value: | a) 12 CZK, b) 14 CZK, c) 15 CZK, d) 22 CZK |
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| Miniature sheet: | 4 stamps + 4 coupons (se-tenant) | |
| Miniature sheet size: | 115 x 170 mm | |
| Picture size: | a-b) 40 x 23 mm, c-d) 40 x 50 mm | |
| Graphic Artist: | Libuše and Jaromír Knotek | |
| Engraver: | Martin Srb | |
| Method of printing: | recess print from flat plates in black combined with multicoloured offset | |
| Subject of the stamp: | In 1963 the Krkonoše Mountains became the first Czech national park. They are considered as a unique European intermediary of the transition from medium to high mountains and the area of the richest nature in the Czech Republic. The nature on the slopes of the Krkonoše Mountains is classified into four altitudinal zones: submountaineous (400-800 m above sea level), mountaineous (800-1200 m above sea level), subalpine (1200-1450 m above sea level) and alpine (1450-1602 m above sea level). There are more than 1250 species of bloomers, i.e. almost one half of the original flora of the Czech Republic, and over 320 species of vertebrates, predominantly birds. Remarkably rich is also the share of glacial relics (plant and animal kinds from the time of the latest glacification) and predominantly plant endemic species (species developed and occurring only at a single location in the world). It is a unique mosaic of ecosystems of alpine peaks, turfs and marshes on the high plateaus and leeward slopes of glacial basins | |
| Subject of the stamps: | a) Viola lutea sudetica Hedysarum hedysaroides b) Cinclus cinclus Leucojum vernum c) Sorex alpinus Salamandra salamandra Primula minima d) Luscinia svecica svecica Aeschna coerulea Pneumonanthe asclepiadea |
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| Subject of the coupons: | 1) Lilium martagon Hieracium aurantiacum 2) Anthus spinoletta Sorbus sudetica Charadrius morinellus 3) Torula quadrifaria Lacerta vivipara Rubus chamaemorus 4) Campanula bohemica Andromeda polyfolia Triturus alpestris |
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| Catalogue No.: | A 0439-0442 | |
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