Frank Gardner / BBC The rare, endemic Socotra Bunting, Emberiza Socotrana. It is found on the high grassy pastures of the Diksam Plateau and is one of nearly a dozen of the island’s bird species ...
Land snails climb trees on Socotra’s arid Zahr Plain to escape heat—and also carnivorous beetles—but then they’re exposed to hungry birds. MARK W. MOFFETT Chamaeleo monachus is found ...
The island chain of Socotra, famed for unique plants and animals found nowhere else on the planet, is coping with the aftermath of a powerful cyclone. The archipelago was struck by Cyclone Mekunu ...
Socotra doesn't have hotels or even traditional ... It's home to over 300 endemic species of trees, a dozen unique bird species, and an indigenous language, Socotri, spoken alongside Arabic.
Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site ...