Animals Under State Protection (Ⅱ)

Following the first set issued in 2000 by the State Postal Bureau, this set ofstamps is second in the series depicting Class-I state protected wildlife. The current set features 12 animals. They are the takin, the Chinese paddlefish, theDavid's deer, the acipenser dabryanus, the north goat, the haliaeetus pelagicus,the wild camel, the snow leopard, the sable, the high-nosed antelope, the blacknecked crane, and the wild yak. Numbers of wild animal species in China arediminishing at an alarmi…