- Condition: MNH (**) just an illustration, the real sheet is perforated
- Year: 2021-09-08
he Milovice Nature Reserve located in a former military training area has become the first place in the world where three key species of large ungulates, namely bison, wild horses and cultivated aurochs, live together. The reserve belongs to the Milovice-Mladá Special Area of Conservation boasting precious preserved open steppes inhabited by many rare plants and animals.
1126 - The Alcon large blue Rebel (Phengaris alcon rebeli)
a critically endangered butterfly whose only host species are the highly endangered Gentiana cruciata and Myrmica ants. When the gentiana plant began to prosper again in the Milovice area after the reintroduction of wild horses, the area attracted a large population of these butterflies.
1127 – a grazing herd of European bisons
the largest wild terrestrial vertebrates in Europe; males weigh up to 920 kilograms, females almost half less (up to 540 kilograms). In the wild, the bison was exterminated by man. The species was saved from extinction by captive and began to be returned to the wild in the 1950s.
1128 - The aurochs (Bos primigenius)
once inhabited most of Europe. The last recorded aurochs died in 1627. The aurochs-like cattle currently living in the Milovice area are the result of back breeding. The characteristics of aurochs include massive horns of a light ivory colour with black tips, smooth and short summer coat, which thickens and noticeably lengthens before winter.
1129 - The Exmoor ponies
share the appearance, size and colour of the native wild horses inhabiting Europe. The Milovice area hosts the first herd of these ponies in the Czech Republic as well as the entire Central and Eastern Europe. There being less than 1,500 of these ponies, the species is ranked as endangered and is more rare than the giant panda. All ponies in the local herd have a name, international passport, and family tree entered in the breeding record book.
Method of printing
recess print from flat plate combined with ulti-coloured offset
