Tens of millions of years of evolution might be worn out on ‘Galapagos of the Indian Ocean,’ conservationists warn
Sitting off the Horn of Africa, the Yemeni island of Socotra was largely left to its own devices for centuries, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense, the healing plant aloe and the crimson sap of the dragon’s blood tree, used for dyes. Roughly the size of New York’s Long Island, Socotra is … Read more