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Save Vanishing Species 2011 85¢ Semi-Postal Stamps — Amur Tiger, Conservation Cause

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Please note: this is an 85¢ semi-postal stamp, not a Forever Stamp. It sold for 11 cents above the first-class postage rate, with the surcharge directed to international conservation through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its Wildlife Without Borders program.

How it came about

The World Wildlife Fund and the Wildlife Conservation Society began pressing the Postal Service for a semi-postal stamp in 2000. It took a decade: Congress passed the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semi-postal Stamp Act in 2010.

The design

An Amur tiger cub — the subspecies also known as the Siberian tiger, which once ranged across Western and Central Asia and has been driven back largely by poaching. Nancy Stahl, who has designed more than 20 U.S. stamps, created the image working from photographs of the species.

What it raised

Between September 2011 and December 2013 the stamp sold over 25 million copies and raised more than $2.75 million. President Obama signed a reauthorization in 2014 extending it to 2018, by which point the total had passed $5.2 million.