Natural Beauty of CVF Member Yemen Socotra an island and a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean is part of Yemen. It lies some 240km east of the Horn of Africa and 380km south of the Arabian Peninsula. Socotra is isolated and considered the jewel of biodiversity in the Arabian Sea. In the 1990s a team of United Nations biologists conducted a survey of the archipelagos flora and fauna counting nearly 700 endemic species found nowhere else on earth; only Hawaii New Caledonia and
