and the dark red sap of the dragon’s blood tree, used for healing and as an artist’s color. Adventurers came to harvest the island’s wealth, despite stories that it was guarded by giant ...

Later three nature reserves were added, two of them on Flores Island ... to relieve himself behind some trees. He died of blood loss. Today villagers who see a dragon coming close or putting ...

and the entire island chain is a registered Unesco World Heritage site. One of the most iconic of its native species is the blood dragon tree - a striking, umbrella-shaped tree with a thick trunk.

Socotra, the main island in an archipelago at the mouth ... is famed for its unique fauna and flora, including the Dragon's Blood Tree President Hadi accused the STC of "gang-style behaviour ...