COVER N.28 - Sovenia
Postmark:  - 21JUN2021, BLED
Posted on the  21stJuly; received on the 28th July.
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A big package from Slovenia reached my mailbox with some very nice items inside, sent by Janez, who had already sent me a very nice cover before. Three amazing stamps were used. Thanks a lot again, Janez.

Stamps, lef to right

With the help of "Deepl", I can make out that this stamp was issued on the occasion of the European Rowing Junior Championship that took place on Lake Bled from the 8th to the 10th June 2012. But, I could not find the stamp on any catalogue online, so I presume this to be a special edition of some sort, I'm also presuming the D on the stamp to be it's tariff indication, but I'm clueless... Any help solving this enigma would be highly appreciated.

the other two amzingly beautiful stamps are the 2012 Slovene Europa emission, issued on 28MAY2021. The 1,37€ stamp features a Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)a species once native to all Western Europe and which due to hunting was brought to the brink of extinction. Successful reintroduction programmes have again made it possible to see this amazing bird in many European countries (still not in mine, sadly) the species now falling under the  "Least Concerned" category regarding its general conservation status.

The 1,22€ stamp has a lovely image of a wild cat (Felis Silvestris), a species that was also featured on the Europa stamp of the Czech Republic. The wild cat is sometimes taken for a normal domestic cat though it is bigger and furrier. Hybridization with domestic cats is one of the main threats to its conservation, although this is also a species categorised as "Least Concerned", regarding its general conservation status.