Implications of Philately in Promoting the Protected Natural Areas (V) - Rodna Mountains National Park

Bogdan-Vasile Cioruța,Alexandru Leonard Pop,Andrei Nicolae Helindian,Mirela Coman

doi:10.9734/ajgr/2020/v3i430119

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Abstract

As part of the natural heritage, our country (Romania) is a blessed place with many areas of unique beauty, 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), nowadays Romfilatelia, 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 and also to show the implications of thematic philately in the promotion of protected areas in the country and abroad, in this paper, we bring to the discussion the most significant philatelic peculiarities (stamps, first-day covers, illustrated and semi-illustrated postcard, maximum postcards, etc) related to the Rodna Mountains National Park.

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Rodna Mountains National Park is a protected area of national interest, which corresponds to the second category of IUCN, located in northern Romania, on the territories of Bistrița-Năsăud and Maramureș counties, in the central area of Rodna Mountains
Having at hand a series of extremely relevant studies at the national level, both in terms of the management of protected areas [13,14,15] and the philatelic issues published in catalogs and journals [16,17], the authors decided to extrapolate the respective approaches on the existing ecosystem in the Rodna Mountains National Park (Romania)
The natural area has several types of habitats [1,2,18] - alpine and boreal scrub, shrubs with sub-arctic species, boreal and alpine meadows on a siliceous substrate, alpine and subalpine calcareous meadows, mountain meadows, Dacian beech forests, edge grasslands with high grasses from the plains to the mountains and the alps, transitional peat bogs and oscillating peat bogs, siliceous rubble from the mountain floor, calcareous and calcareous rubble from the mountain to the alpine floor, herbaceous and woody vegetation along the mountain rivers, active peat bogs, caves where public access is forbidden, rocky slopes - which house a diverse range of flora and fauna specific to the Carpathian chain

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Rodna Mountains National Park (abbreviated RMNP) is a protected area of national interest, which corresponds to the second category of IUCN, located in northern Romania, on the territories of Bistrița-Năsăud and Maramureș counties, in the central area of Rodna Mountains. The RMNP is designated internationally as a Biosphere Reserve by the UNESCO Committee, under the "Man and the Biosphere" program [1,2] The importance of this park is due both to the geology and geomorphology of the mountain range [3] and to the presence of numerous species of flora and fauna, endemics, and glacial relics(over 1100 species have been inventoried, and 67 glacial lakes) [4,5]. It was organized in 1990 when the Ministry of Waters, Forests and Environmental Protection issued Order no. The national park overlaps both the site of Community importance (SCI) and the special avifauna protection area (SPA) Rodna Mountains [1,6]

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