Socotra Archipelago is a small archipelago of four islands and two rocky islets in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa. It is one of the most isolated landforms on Earth of continental origin earning it the “jewel” of biodiversity in the Arabian sea.

Socotra Archipelago is so isolated that 37 percent of Socotra’s 825 plant species, 90 percent of its reptile species, and 95 percent of its land snail species do not occur anywhere else in the world. The flora of Socotra is rank as among the ten most endangered island flora in the world. The image below is the dragon’s blood tree, an tree that is only found in the Socotra Archipelago.