Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)
Michel Reference
TN 1574
Stanley Reference
TN 1554
Yvert Reference
TN 1493
Themes
Animals
Description
The Scimitar-horned Oryx (Oryx dammah), sometimes called Libyan Oryx, White Oryx, Red-breasted Oryx or Scimitar-horned Oryx, lived in the steppes and semi-deserts of central Niger, Chad, southern Libya and the Sahara. The last wild populations died out there in the 1970s and 1980s. The survival of the species today relies on captive populations: reintroduction projects have been underway since the early 2000s, in reserves in Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. These projects also resulted in the reclassification of the species from “extinct” to “in danger” of extinction in 2023 by the IUCN.
Size
36x26 mm
Colors
Polychrome
Designer
Skander Gader
Printers
Tunisia Post Printing House
Perforation
13
Print
Offset
Face Value
0,60 DT
Mint Value
1,16 $
Used Value
0,58 $
Print Run
1 000 000 exemplaires
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