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This Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamp design is simply AWESOME!
Here's a heads-up to all my fellow birders out there. Despite a national Associated Press wire story (+ AP wirephoto of the above stamp design), most people are unaware there is now an Official Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print Program to raise funds to help save this beautiful rare bird. If you do want to do YOUR part, please consider buying a conservation stamp or print!
If enough of us who love the Ivory-bill will invest in these stamps and the accompanying limited edition prints, it will raise much-needed private funds to make a BIG difference. Please take a look at the web site linked below:
Official Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print Program
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamps and Prints are scheduled to be released September 1, 2005. Advance online orders are being taken, with the lowest limited edition print numbers assigned to the earliest orders.
There is a distinct possibility these stamps and prints will also go up in value once they're sold out. I have heard John Fitzpatrick of Cornell say there are an estimated 70 MILLION people in US who consider themselves to be a birder!
The artwork used for the Ivory-bill Woodpecker Conservation Stamp design created by top national wildlife artist Larry Chandler is superb. He is an old friend of Professor Bobby Harrison, who along with Tim Gallagher (author of The Grail Bird and Editor of Living Bird Magazine), first saw the bird.
You can easily tell this artist has designed numerous other conservation stamps before, such as the Alabama Duck Stamp (twice), Kentucky Duck Stamp (twice) and also the prestigious Arkansas Duck Stamp (3 times including this year!). Speaking of the 2005 Arkansas Duck Stamp, he got special permission to add in an Ivory-billed Woodpecker on a tree into the duck stamp design's background - after his original design was accepted!
The web site linked above contains LOTS of interesting Ivory-billed Woodpecker information, news, photos, video and links (and more promised). A PDF file of the Official Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print brochure has been recently added, along with photos of a full sheet of 4 conservation stamps, an example of a print framed with both mint and artist-signed stamps, the Cloisonne collector pin, layout of a billboard on I-40 near Brinkley, Arkansas and the forthcoming Ivory-bill Woodpecker license plate that will be available in Arkansas. All bird lovers will find this site fascinating!
Proceeds from the sale of these new conservation stamps and prints will be equally split between The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (for research), The Nature Conservancy (for more habitat acquision) and the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation - non-profit arm of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (for more public education). It is hoped that other conservation organizations will agree to match the funds raised by these stamps and prints, so the total amount raised gets multiplied.
It's going to take a 3-pronged approach, with LOTS of money coming from the private sector, to save the birds long-term. We simply can NOT rely on government to do it for US on their own! At this point, I'm not sure if the private sector will open their wallets to donate what will be needed. That's why I am so encouraged to see this Ivory-bill Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print Program become "Official". It truly gives the Ivory-bills new hope.
Best of all, instead of you just getting a write-off on tax form, you will get something beautiful to show for your contribution! I'm afraid thousands of people just buying a T-shirt (as some conservation groups are now doing to raise $) will NOT be enough. Thousands of conservation stamps prints and stamps sold WILL help, especially if the funds raised by this program are matched.
But, speaking of T-shirts, below is THE best-looking one I have seen and it comes from a company that donates 1/3 of the net proceeds to conservation (usually with Ducks Unlimited). I can't wait for mine to arrive in the mail...
Cornell has one for sale with this same bird (on the back side) too, but the background was cropped out in that one (and has the word "found" on it). This one, which I've ordered, has the full beautiful design on the front with the words "From The Brink Of Extinction" and "Rediscovered!" on it (these come from artist himself) and sells for $2.00 less too. Watch out for some unauthorized BOGUS ones on Ebay that may look similar to this image, but reversed. Those T-shirts could be a Scam!
Here's the order page where you can order with a credit card or Paypal:
Order Ivory-blled Woodpecker Conservation Stamp, Print, Poster, T-shirt, Collector Pin, etc.
Thanks to everyone who steps up to the plate to do their part!
Here's a heads-up to all my fellow birders out there. Despite a national Associated Press wire story (+ AP wirephoto of the above stamp design), most people are unaware there is now an Official Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print Program to raise funds to help save this beautiful rare bird. If you do want to do YOUR part, please consider buying a conservation stamp or print!
If enough of us who love the Ivory-bill will invest in these stamps and the accompanying limited edition prints, it will raise much-needed private funds to make a BIG difference. Please take a look at the web site linked below:
Official Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print Program
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamps and Prints are scheduled to be released September 1, 2005. Advance online orders are being taken, with the lowest limited edition print numbers assigned to the earliest orders.
There is a distinct possibility these stamps and prints will also go up in value once they're sold out. I have heard John Fitzpatrick of Cornell say there are an estimated 70 MILLION people in US who consider themselves to be a birder!
The artwork used for the Ivory-bill Woodpecker Conservation Stamp design created by top national wildlife artist Larry Chandler is superb. He is an old friend of Professor Bobby Harrison, who along with Tim Gallagher (author of The Grail Bird and Editor of Living Bird Magazine), first saw the bird.
You can easily tell this artist has designed numerous other conservation stamps before, such as the Alabama Duck Stamp (twice), Kentucky Duck Stamp (twice) and also the prestigious Arkansas Duck Stamp (3 times including this year!). Speaking of the 2005 Arkansas Duck Stamp, he got special permission to add in an Ivory-billed Woodpecker on a tree into the duck stamp design's background - after his original design was accepted!
The web site linked above contains LOTS of interesting Ivory-billed Woodpecker information, news, photos, video and links (and more promised). A PDF file of the Official Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print brochure has been recently added, along with photos of a full sheet of 4 conservation stamps, an example of a print framed with both mint and artist-signed stamps, the Cloisonne collector pin, layout of a billboard on I-40 near Brinkley, Arkansas and the forthcoming Ivory-bill Woodpecker license plate that will be available in Arkansas. All bird lovers will find this site fascinating!
Proceeds from the sale of these new conservation stamps and prints will be equally split between The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (for research), The Nature Conservancy (for more habitat acquision) and the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation - non-profit arm of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (for more public education). It is hoped that other conservation organizations will agree to match the funds raised by these stamps and prints, so the total amount raised gets multiplied.
It's going to take a 3-pronged approach, with LOTS of money coming from the private sector, to save the birds long-term. We simply can NOT rely on government to do it for US on their own! At this point, I'm not sure if the private sector will open their wallets to donate what will be needed. That's why I am so encouraged to see this Ivory-bill Woodpecker Conservation Stamp Print Program become "Official". It truly gives the Ivory-bills new hope.
Best of all, instead of you just getting a write-off on tax form, you will get something beautiful to show for your contribution! I'm afraid thousands of people just buying a T-shirt (as some conservation groups are now doing to raise $) will NOT be enough. Thousands of conservation stamps prints and stamps sold WILL help, especially if the funds raised by this program are matched.
But, speaking of T-shirts, below is THE best-looking one I have seen and it comes from a company that donates 1/3 of the net proceeds to conservation (usually with Ducks Unlimited). I can't wait for mine to arrive in the mail...
Cornell has one for sale with this same bird (on the back side) too, but the background was cropped out in that one (and has the word "found" on it). This one, which I've ordered, has the full beautiful design on the front with the words "From The Brink Of Extinction" and "Rediscovered!" on it (these come from artist himself) and sells for $2.00 less too. Watch out for some unauthorized BOGUS ones on Ebay that may look similar to this image, but reversed. Those T-shirts could be a Scam!
Here's the order page where you can order with a credit card or Paypal:
Order Ivory-blled Woodpecker Conservation Stamp, Print, Poster, T-shirt, Collector Pin, etc.
Thanks to everyone who steps up to the plate to do their part!
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