The common theme in 2021 is Endangered National Wildlife and the stamps show the wildlife that is native to the issuing country and endangered. Europa 2021 issues provide the countries with a great opportunity to showcase the diversity in their native fauna. PostNL joined other Postal Services and released two impressive items featuring bees.
PostNL is focusing on one of the most important insects - the bee. Technically under the name “the bee" we mean different species of this insect. In the Netherlands alone, there are more than 330 known species of bees, and more than half of the representatives are in danger. The colorful stamps introduced by PostNL feature different bees crawling over a hexagonal shape. In the first item, the hexagons are naturally colored and have a traditional shape, whereas the second stamp depicts the hexagons as colorful blocks. Bees often cannot survive in the environment created by people, which is why so many of them are almost extinct.
Check out other EUROPA 2021 stamps.
