By Shreya Dasgupta Socotra Island, known as the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean, hosts an unusual diversity of plants found ...

The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all tapped the treasures of Socotra’s natural world: aromatic resins such as frankincense, medicinal aloe extract, and the dark red sap of the dragon ...

The assessment comes after an investigation across Socotra island in Yemen, which has the highest diversity of frankincense species per square kilometre in the world. Resin from the trees was once ...

Lesser-known fact: Salalah’s frankincense trees are some of the oldest in the world. Once upon a time, their resin was more valuable ... place on Earth,” Socotra is a dream destination for ...

Six species of frankincense on Socotra Island, Yemen, have moved from the vulnerable to the endangered category, and three species have been assessed for the first time as critically endangered.

Six species of frankincense on Socotra Island, Yemen, have moved from the vulnerable to the endangered category, and three species have been assessed for the first time as critically endangered. More ...

The shrub-like trees, found in parts of Africa, southern Arabia and the Indian subcontinent, produce an aromatic resin called frankincense ... 11 are only found on Socotra Island, off the coast ...