Reduction

The U.N. declared the 1990s the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. It was meant to raise public awareness about natural disasters and to call upon member states to work together to be prepare for natural disasters to reduce the number of deaths and loss of property, to minimize economic and other disruptions in people’s lives. Natural disasters can include earthquakes, droughts, floods, hurricanes, and other such events.

Note

The first set of stamps are colorful, well designed, and interesting. But I covered other stamps issued the same day in this series elsewhere: see the Endangered Species page. So I focused on writing about the other set of stamps here.

This second set of stamps are related to Natural Disaster Reduction are poorly designed and not very colorful. I realize they’re about unplesant events, but this gloomy design doesn’t make people want to use the stamps, nor does it make recipients look closely at the stamps and wonder.

Nothing is learned or promoted by these stamps. The U.N. has issued many stamps with such minimal and unattractive design style. If it weren’t for their many good and interesting programs, as well as many stamps that are were designed, I probably would be deterred from collecting them.

Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Endangered Species

1.1	✓	246	Mexican Prairie Dog	0.80 (mar 1994) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	247	Jabiru Jabiru mycteria	0.80 (mar 1994) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	248	Blue Whale	0.80 (mar 1994) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	249	Golden Lion Tamarin	0.80 (mar 1994) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	251	Prevention of Natural Disasters	0.60 (may 1994) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	252	Prevention of Natural Disasters	0.60 (may 1994) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	253	Prevention of Natural Disasters	0.60 (may 1994) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	254	Prevention of Natural Disasters	0.60 (may 1994) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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