Botswana Butterflies

Postcard

A postcard depicting a butterfly shaped stamp sheet. The butterflies are actually moths. The stamps were issued in the year 2000.

Stamps

The three stamps are all part of a series of 14 bird stamps, issued in 2014.

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Botswana

Postcard

Botswana is a country unrivalled in its abundance of wildlife and natural resources, which are as diverse as the Kalahari Desert in the southern and eastern parts of the country, to the lush Okavango Delta swamps and river plains of the north.

 

The Okavango Delta in Botswana is a very large outland delta with an abundant wildlife and over 400 bird species. All the water reaching the Delta is ultimately evaporated and transpired, and does not flow into any sea or ocean.

Stamps

All The Stars in Heaven, very colorful but Im not sure where this stamp is about.

WWF stamp dedicated to the Southern White Rinoceros (2011 issue).

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Moremi Game Reserve Botswana

Postcard

Botswana is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa,  Namibia  Zimbabwe and Zambia (for a very small part).

In March 1885 Botswana was declared a British Protectorate. Extensive territories were incorporated into the then British colony of South Africa under the name of British Bechuanaland. In 1966 the country became the independent Republic of Botswana with Sir Seretse Khama its first President.

Moremi falls within the tribal land of the Batswana and is named after the late Chief Moremi III. It was clear to his wife, who reigned after his death, that the game in their traditional hunting grounds was fast disappearing. 

With encouragement from conservationists, Mrs Moremi proclaimed the Moremi Game Reserve in March 1963 and the tribe agreed to vacate the land. Today, Moremi rates as one of the leading wildlife areas of the world.

Stamps

From a set of 14 stamps picturing butterflies, issued 2007: Sapphire (left), Apricot Playboy (right) and an African Monarch (bottom).

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