Implications of Philately in the Representation of the Ceahl?u National Park from Romania - An Ecological Revised Case Study

Bogdan-Vasile Cioruța,Alexandru Leonard Pop,Mirela Coman

doi:10.9734/ajgr/2021/v4i230129

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Abstract

Romania is a blessed place with many areas of unique beauty - 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, we bring to the talk the most significant philatelic peculiarities in the Ceahl?u National Park (Romania). In this context, the purpose of the research is to identify, index, analyze, describe and disseminate the main philatelic materials that promote the protected area considered. The realization of the whole approach was based on the information provided by a series of philatelic catalogs and sites with dedicated philatelic content. The results show that the concern for the habitat of the area was remarkable, both the multitude of identified philatelic pieces and their artwork speak for themselves.

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Natural heritage, from a conceptual and philosophical point of view [1], is what we define and accept as being the ensemble of components and physical-geographic structures of whose importance has an economical, scientific, biogenetic, recreative, cultural and ecological significance [2]
The present study complements the series dedicated to the implications of thematic philately in the promotion of protected areas, respectively Ceahlău National Park, "Pețea Creek" Natural Reservation [6], Cozia National Park [7], Domogled - Cerna Valley National Park [8], and Rodna Mountains National Park [9]
Having at hand a series of extremely relevant studies at the national level, in terms of the management of protected areas [2428], and the philatelic issues published in catalogs [11]-[13], the authors decided to extrapolate that approaches on the Ceahlău National Park ecosystem

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From a conceptual and philosophical point of view [1], is what we define and accept as being the ensemble of components and physical-geographic structures of whose importance has an economical, scientific, biogenetic, recreative, cultural and ecological significance [2]. All these roles are consider under the aspect of conserving the biodiversity, of ecosystems’ functional integrity (protected areas offer a wide range of services) [3,4], genetical heritage conservation, vegetation and animals, the satisfaction of the everyday life, for both present and future generations. From an ecological-philatelic perspective are based on basic publications targeting protected areas [10], and philatelic catalogs [11,12,13], providing the pedoclimatic and hydrological conditions necessary for preserving the specific biological diversity, as shown by stamps [14,15], and First Day Cover in Fig. 1 [16,17,18,19,20]

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