Implications of Philately in Promoting the Protected Natural Areas (IV): Domogled - Cerna Valley National Park

Alexandru Leonard Pop,Bogdan-Vasile Cioruța,Mirela Coman

doi:10.9734/ajgr/2020/v3i430120

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Abstract

Romania is a blessed place with many areas of unique beauty, and with the most interesting species of flora and fauna for research - as part of the natural heritage - with places where the spectacle of nature delights your eyes and take your breath with every step. Constantly promoting philatelic themes that use natural wealth and the beauty of our country as subjects, the administrative entity (with various names over time) responsible for issuing postage stamps performs a series of postage stamps in whose images are found rarities of flora and fauna, a miracle of nature. To show that protected natural areas have a special beauty, and to make them known to everyone, in this paper, we bring to the discussion the most significant philatelic peculiarities in the Domogled - Cerna Valley National Park. Also, through this paper, we tried to highlight the main post-philatelic effects (postage stamps, first-day covers - FDCs, illustrated postcards, maximum postcards, occasional envelopes, and other postal circulations), which appeared at the level of Romanian thematic philately, concerning the studied area. Through their prism, we tried to show that besides the role of ambassador of beauties and national heritage, the thematic philately has implications in the protection of species of flora and fauna. About other areas of interest, where the philatelic products were not highlighted, it can be mentioned that in the considered area (Domogled - Cerna Valley National Park) the management of the protected area only had to gain.

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Domogled - Cerna Valley is a protected area of national interest that corresponds to the second category IUCN, located in the southwestern part of Romania, on the territories of Caraş-Severin, Mehedinți and Gorj counties [1,2]
Having at hand a series of extremely relevant studies at the national level, both in terms of the management of protected areas [11-13] and the philatelic issues published in catalogues and journals [14,15], the authors decided to extrapolate those approaches to the relatively limited space of the existing ecosystem in Domogled - Cerna Valley National Park
The subject of the study, in the form of a philatelic circuit of Domogled - Cerna Valley National Park, is based on the sites that host philatelic content, which come in addition to discussion forums and online meetings with other collectors and passionate philatelists

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Domogled - Cerna Valley is a protected area of national interest that corresponds to the second category IUCN (national park), located in the southwestern part of Romania, on the territories of Caraş-Severin, Mehedinți and Gorj counties [1,2]. The natural area is located in the central-eastern part of Caraş-Severin county (on the administrative territories of Cornereva, Mehadia, Teregova, Topleţ and Zăvoi communes and of Băile Herculane city), the north-western part of Gorj county (on Padeş commune and Tismana city) and in the northeast of Mehedinţi County (on the territories of Balta, Isverna, Obârşia-Cloşani and Podeni communes) and is to be crossed by the national road 66 A, to connect Hunedoara and Caraş Severin counties. From the point of view of geo-positioning, the area is between the coordinates 45°05′35′′ lat. E, as it can be observed, at the schematic level, in Fig. 1 [2-4]

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