Today Socotra’s rich biological diversity brings new explorers, who hope to learn its secrets before the modern world changes it forever. Land snails climb trees on Socotra’s arid Zahr Plain ...

Frank Gardner / BBC Dragon's Blood Tree is known to Socotrans by its Arabic name, Damm Al-Akhwayn – Blood of Two Brothers. Endemic to the remote Haghir Mountains of Socotra, it is named after ...

Socotra is part of Yemen ... One of the most iconic of its native species is the blood dragon tree - a striking, umbrella-shaped tree with a thick trunk. Getty Images It gets its name from ...