The yearly art contest for the 2023-24 Hawai’i Wildlife Preservation and Video Game Bird Stamp is here.
Hosted by the DLNR Department of Forestry and Wildlife, the stamp contest looks for art work including one of 2 types. The wildlife preservation stamp is a requirement for Hawai’i state searching licensees while the video game bird stamp is needed for anybody meaning to hunt video game birds. Both stamps will likewise be offered to mark collectors.
The Video game Bird Stamp will include the chestnut-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus). The chestnut-bellied sandgrouse is belonging to Africa and Asia and is a presented video game bird on Hawaiʻi Island. It can fly versus the greatest Waimea winds and make diurnal migrations mauka to makai to gather water.
The Wildlife Preservation Stamp will include kāhuli, Hawaiian land snails. Hawaiʻi when harbored over 750 types of land snails, nearly all of which were distinct to private islands. These gems of nature and culture are essential parts of island environments from mauka to makai, and can be found in a range of amazing colors, shell shapes, and sizes.
All entries need to be gotten by Feb. 25, 2023. Alert of the winner will be made in March 2023. Entry requirements are listed below:
Setting: Hawai’i environment
Size: Finished painting with an optimum of 24″ by 36″ and unframed (to be lowered to 1″ X 1.5″ stamp)
Medium: Oil or acrylic
Entry: Finished oil or acrylic painting or an 8.5″ X 11″ photo/print/photocopy of a finished painting
All paintings sent out need to be accompanied by a $35 cost, to cover the expense of returning art work. If a check is not consisted of, you will require to come to the Administration workplace to get your art work. Checks are to be made payable to the DLNR. Otherwise, a picture, print, or copy of an initial painting might be sent out without any cost (see application).
The winner will get an optimum award of $1,000. The winner of the Preservation Stamp will likewise get a behind-the-scenes trip (on their own and 10 friend or family) of a captive rearing snail laboratory.
Funds from Hawaii Wildlife Preservation Stamp sales enter into the state Wildlife Revolving Fund to support wildlife populations and environment, and to handle the states searching program.
In 2015 earnings from both stamps were utilized to cover a few of the expenses of preserving searching systems and to include video game bird and video game mammal searching opportunities where possible. Earnings from the sales of wildlife preservation stamps will likewise offer funds for the yearly lease leasing of the Lānaʻi Cooperative Video Game Management Location and a number of other searching leases while likewise supporting wildlife variety programs.
