Today Socotra’s rich biological diversity brings ... She disappears into the darkness and returns to offer me a small, paper-wrapped package. Would I like to buy some frankincense?

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Earth and ... vessel's chance encounter in 1985 near the Yemeni island of Socotra, which was found to contain the bacteria Vibrio harveyi.

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 ...

Of the 24 known Boswellia species, 11 are only found on Socotra Island, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra’s Boswellia trees are currently not the main source of commercially traded frankincense ...

2008 32COM 8B.5 - Examination of nomination of natural, mixed and cultural properties to the World Heritage List - Socotra Archipelago (YEMEN) 2022 State of conservation report by the State Party / ...