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The sun rises over dragon blood trees growing on the Diksam plateau.
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
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A Socotran chameleon, endemic to the island, climbs on a young dragon blood tree
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
Boys check their catch after fishing off the beach.
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
A girl pauses while collecting shells on the beach next to the wreckage of a ship on Socotra
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
Boys check their catch after fishing off the beach.
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
A girl pauses while collecting shells on the beach next to the wreckage of a ship on Socotra
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
A woman demonstrates how to grind the resin from a dragon blood tree.
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
A Socotran chameleon, endemic to the island, climbs on a young dragon blood tree
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
A woman demonstrates how to grind the resin from a dragon blood tree.
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
A Socotran chameleon, endemic to the island, climbs on a young dragon blood tree
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
The sun sets behind the island
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
The sun rises over dragon blood trees growing on the Diksam plateau.
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
#photography
#islands
#Yemen
#Socotra
#DragonBloodTrees
#sunrise
The sun sets behind the island
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
Socotra, an island apart from mainland Yemen’s turmoil
A Soviet tank lies in the sand. In June 2020, the UAE-backed secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) wrested control of the island from the Saudi-backed internationally recognised government. The STC joined the government’s Presidential Leadership Council, but the UAE retains considerable military and economic influence in the archipelago
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty
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