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Kaveka, O’o, Otaha, Rupe, Oio, Upo’a, itata’e, so many exotic names illustrating birds in Polynesia the beauty of which makes part of the dream of these islands of the South Seas.
Some birds of our fenua are only in a single archipelago or a single island, even a single valley or on a single island ( motu ). We say they are endemic. They arrived on their islands thousands even million years ago, and have lived isolated from continents and other mammals.
However, the dream could darken because the successive waves of the arrival of the man and his procession of intrusive species as well as predators of birds (rats and cats), profoundly modified the ecosystem of these naive birds which developed no mechanism of protection against those predators. This places the French Polynesia in first rows of countries in the strongest percentage of endangered species to the world and as the French territory which shelters most endangered species.
Convinced of this threat a part of the population mobilized to protect what makes the beauty and the specificity of our country.
The Manu association grouping of numerous volunteer dashed into the protection, the study and the inventory of the wild birds of Polynesia and their housing environments.
Programs of information of the public were set up through the « Environment Days”, by the conferences but also by field trips (observations, sound recordings, photograph).
Through this philatelic issue we suggest you discovering the Heron strié (A’o in Tahitian) a species of herons which lives only on the island of Tahiti. Generally present on the coast, are housing environment threatened by the urbanization, classify him among endangered species.
Also let us find, Rousserolle des marquises (koma' o in Marquesan) which thanks to the exuberance of these far away islands, remains protected.
Let us pledge that our stamps made you discover all the ornithological beauty of our islands but also the fragility of our ecosystem.
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