Description

On 26 April 2024, the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) continues its Endangered Species stamp series with the issuance of 12 stamps.

The 2024 United Nations Endangered Species stamp series brings together a diverse array of fauna and flora, including species at the centre of the decisions adopted by the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and discussions within the past year relating to sustainable wildlife conservation, management, and trade of these species.

As the core objective of the Convention is to ensure that international trade in wild animals and plants is legal, sustainable, and traceable, CITES works to uphold and maintain the survival in the wild of species listed in its appendices.

For 30 years, UNPA has issued stamps in support of CITES to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that conservation provides to people.

The Designs

New York – US$ 1.55
Rhynchobatus djiddensis (giant guitarfish)
Orchis anatolica (Anatolian orchid)
Neofelis nebulosa (clouded leopard)
Pycnonotus zeylanicus (straw-headed bulbul)

Geneva – CHF 1,90
Potamotrygon albimaculata (Itaituba river stingray)
Aquilaria malaccensis (aloewood)
Vicugna vicugna (vicuña)
Isurus oxyrinchus (shortfin mako shark)

Vienna – € 1,50
Sphyrna lewini (scalloped hammerhead shark)
Ophrys cilicica (Cilician bee orchid)
Lama guanicoe (guanaco)
Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama)

The Artist
Julia Izabela is an artist from São Paulo, Brazil. Since 2015, she has been living in Milan, Italy, working as a freelance illustrator. Her biggest source of inspiration is nature and its diversity of shapes and colours. Her goal is for her art to express how fascinating nature can be through its beauty, from microscopic to macroscopic forms.

Ms. Izabela began her academic path studying biology, starting with bachelor’s degree programme in São Paulo, then graduating from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal, where she followed a scientific illustration course at Instituto de Artes e Ofícios of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. In 2016, her watercolour painting “Ground Control” won first prize in the Lucca Junior Illustration Contest at the Lucca Comics and Games festival in Italy.

Since 2017, Ms. Izabela has been working in fields such as textile design, editorial publication and diverse artistic projects. In 2019 and 2020 Julia worked for the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, creating illustrations, schemes and animations for their biology didactics website Digital Diorama.

This is Ms. Izabela’s first time illustrating stamps for UNPA.