More than a third of Socotra’s plant species grow nowhere else on Earth.
The island sits off the coast of Yemen, and millions of years of separation from the mainland gave plants and animals time to evolve in their own direction. UNESCO counts 825 plant species across the archipelago, and 307 of them are endemic. Around 90% of its reptile species and 95% of its land snails are found nowhere else.
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