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Yemen is hiding an island of “Dragon’s Blood” trees; most of its reptiles and land snails live nowhere else on earth

Socotra's isolation created unique species found nowhere else. Dragon's Blood trees capture fog moisture for survival. Reptiles and snails thrive in protected island habitats. Conservation efforts address threats like climate change and grazing. Protecting Socotra preserves evolutionary history and biodiversity.

The Times of India · Aug 5

Socotra: Why this Yemeni island is called the most alien place on Earth

The Socotra archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, has been referred to as the most alien place on Earth because of its bizarre, long-lost, and otherworldly features. The Socotra archipelago has been separated from the African mainland for 18 million years and has evolved into an evolutionary laboratory due to…

The Times of India · Mar 26

A real tree, a real sky… but this amazing photo feels like it was taken on another planet!

Benjamin Barakat’s award-winning astrophotograph reveals Socotra’s surreal bottle tree beneath a pristine Milky Way

Digital Camera World · Dec 23, 2025

A wild moment with date paste – Sayed Asif Mahmud’s best photograph

‘This was one of 40 pictures of Yemen I showed at an exhibition in Brussels. The Yemeni ambassador came to me with tears in his eyes and said: “No one has shown my country like this”’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2024

Yemen: beauty on the edge of war – photo essay

The photographs of Mattia Velati tell a story of Yemen under the internationally recognised government and the different militias and tribes that control the southern part of the country in the civil war against Houthi forces that has ravaged the country since the end of 2014

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2023