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R18: this recent Freshwater Fish issue features the Nile Tilapia, a commercial species, and was postmarked at Trou aux Biches, or Creatures' Hollow!

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R20: this issue features an ancient map, commemorating 200 years of the Capture of Rodrigues Is.

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R3: this issue features Halley's Comet soaring above the Indian Ocean

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R1: this 2001 issue celebrates the Baudin geographical and natural history expedition

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70c: this definitive issue shows a map made by Bellin in 1763 during the age of exploration

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R10: this PhilaNippon Issue features a local Butterfly posed on a pink Hibiscus

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R1: this WWF issue shows endemic spotted geckos basking on a branch

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R5, R2.50, 25c: Island flora issues -- at right is the Cloves' fruit and flower, from a set showing useful spices and medicinal plants; below the native Boucle and Blue Latan Palms are shown.

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R3: this Health and Nutrition issue celebrates the 40th anniv. of the World Health Org. and shows a variety of island fruits and foods

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R25: this 2004 flora issue shows different ornamental flowers, such as a pink anthurium

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R2, R4: two stamps from a 2004 issue celebrating the Rodrigues National Assembly

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Rs. 5: this 2003 WWF issue shows the Echo Parakeet, a critically rare endemic island species that has an interesting conservation history. It was bred in captivity from just a dozen birds in the 1980s, later being released into its native forest habitat, and flocks now number in the hundreds.

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R8: this issue celebrates the anniv. of the World Meteorological Org. with an impressive satellite view of the island situated amidst a huge storm system in the Indian Ocean

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R10: the Dombeya spp. is pictured on this 2009 flora issue. This flower's genus is named after the French botanist who embroiled France, Spain and Britian in the so-called Dombey affair, when in 1780 he sent a flora collection to Europe from Peru and the British seized the vessel and impounded the samples.

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R5: this 2007 biodiversity issue shows soft pink coral, a colorful species of local reefs

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R7: this 2006 issue celebrates two centuries of the regatta of Mahebourg

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R3, R10: this set contains magnificent reproductions of early maps of the region, incuding one by Mercator (1569) and Jorge Reinel (1520)

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R10: this issue shows early stamps from the island's postal service, dating from 1847

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R50: a showy hibiscus is shown on this high value from the recent indigenous flowers series

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R25: Kite flying is featured on this issue showing children's games