Yemen: Amidst Ongoing Conflict, Efforts to Save This Endemic Tree Are Threatened

Jan 29, 2024 | Abdulmalik Alnemri, Ensia and Egab
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Dragon’s blood, or Dam al-Akhawain (two brothers’ blood), as it’s locally known, is endemic to Socotra, a mostly desert archipelago south of the Arabian Peninsula, whose isolation from Yemen’s mainland has largely spared it the destruction of the country’s nine-year civil war and preserved its distinctive nature.