Current:Home > StocksManatee stamps coming out to spread awareness about threatened species-DB Wealth Institute B2 Expert Reviews
Manatee stamps coming out to spread awareness about threatened species
View Date:2024-12-23 23:28:03
A quirky new stamp by the U.S. Postal Service is set to make its debut in a few short weeks.
The “Save Manatees” stamp will be available to buy nationwide on Wednesday, March 27, which is Manatee Appreciation Day.
The stamp's design aims to “spread awareness for the need to protect a beloved marine mammal."
The stamp, illustrated by Nancy Wright, shows a gray-green West Indian manatee “placidly lolling underwater near the surface,” according to the Postal Service website.
Here are all the deets, including inspiration and price.
How much does the new 'Save Manatees' cost?
You can get one single “Save Manatees” postage stamp for 68 cents, or a book of 20 for $13.60.
The stamp will be issued as a First-Class Mail Forever stamp, meaning that they can be used to send letters, cards and bills regardless of additional stamp increases, USPS spokesperson Sue Brennan told USA TODAY.
The "Save Manatees" stamp is available for pre-order here.
What inspired the 'Save Manatees' stamp?
The last time the Postal Service issued a postage stamp featuring a manatee was in 1996, when it cost 32 cents.
“It was time for a new one,” Brennan said, adding that the Postal Service has a “long history of supporting and bringing awareness to animal and conservation issues with postage stamps.”
The West Indian manatee on the new stamp is described as a “gentle and vulnerable” marine mammal, inhabiting Florida’s inland waterways and warm areas of the coastal Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to a Postal Service news release.
Manatees are considered a “threatened species” meaning that the species is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Their survival is seen as “limited due to their low reproductive rates,” according to the National Wildlife Federation.
Manatees are slow swimmers and slow to reproduce − a female has one calf at a time and may tend to it for two years, according to wildlife experts.
See other stamp designs available here.
veryGood! (28)
Related
- Veterans Day restaurant deals 2024: More than 80 discounts, including free meals
- Singer David Daniels no longer in singers’ union following guilty plea to sexual assault
- Judge threatens to dismiss lawsuit from Arkansas attorney general in prisons dispute
- Taylor Swift's Travis Kelce beanie was handmade. Here's the story behind the cozy hat
- Engines on 1.4 million Honda vehicles might fail, so US regulators open an investigation
- Custom made by Tulane students, mobility chairs help special needs toddlers get moving
- Teen who planned Ohio synagogue attack must write book report on WWII hero who saved Jews
- Texas begins flying migrants from US-Mexico border to Chicago, with 1st plane carrying 120 people
- Sister Wives’ Christine Brown Shares Glimpse Into Honeymoon One Year After Marrying David Woolley
- Mexico’s president predicts full recovery for Acapulco, but resort residents see difficulties
Ranking
- Watch as massive amount of crabs scamper across Australian island: 'It's quite weird'
- Australia to send military personnel to help protect Red Sea shipping but no warship
- Nantz, Childress, Ralph and Steve Smith named to 2024 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame class
- Electric scooter Bird Global steers into bankruptcy protection in bid to repair its finances
- Trump is likely to name a loyalist as Pentagon chief after tumultuous first term
- Australia to send military personnel to help protect Red Sea shipping but no warship
- A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors’ home are investigated by FBI
- Former NBA player allegedly admitted to fatally strangling woman in Las Vegas, court documents show
Recommendation
-
Atmospheric river to bring heavy snow, rain to Northwest this week
-
Key takeaways from an AP investigation into how police failed to stop a serial killer
-
California’s top prosecutor won’t seek charges in 2020 fatal police shooting of Bay Area man
-
Andrew Haigh on the collapsing times and unhealed wounds of his ghost story ‘All of Us Strangers’
-
NFL Week 11 picks straight up and against spread: Will Bills hand Chiefs first loss of season?
-
Picture It, The Ultimate Golden Girls Gift Guide
-
Bus crash kills player, assistant coach in Algerian soccer’s top league, matches postponed
-
Toyota recalls 1 million vehicles for defect that may prevent air bags from deploying