The animals featured are subjects of conservation projects undertaken by the trust with the support of the Darwin Initiative, a UK government grant scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment.
The stamps were designed by Italian artist and natural science illustrator Sara Menon and feature the mangrove finch, Livingstone’s fruit bat, Telfair’s skink, the mountain chicken, Hispaniolan solenodon and the pygmy hog.
Lee Durrell, honorary director of Durrell, said: ‘The Darwin Initiative has provided significant support to the Durrell mission for a quarter of a century, and I am delighted to see the relationship commemorated in this set of stamps produced by Jersey Post.
‘The images depict the creatures we are helping to recover from the brink of extinction, all of which are typical Durrell species, from a very large frog to a tiny pig – the small and less showy animals which Gerald Durrell said, have just as much right to exist as the big, cuddly ones.’
