Gimini island of Sukotras sits in the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.

It's one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, sometimes called the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean.

More than a third of the plant species on the island doesn't exist anywhere else on Earth.

That includes a type of dragon's blood tree.

Some of them are centuries old, but now

they're struggling to survive in the face of intensifying threats from climate change.

Associated Press, Oceans and Climate Correspondent, Annika Homershlog went to Sukkotra for a

firsthand look. Annaika, first of all, this island, it's isolated. Not many people go there. So tell us what this island is like.

It just looks like nowhere else I'd ever been. There's very little infrastructure on the island and

visitors camp their way across it, which I really loved. And many of the plants look totally surreal,

like the bottle trees that jut out of the side of cliffs

and the frankincense trees that have these wild, gnarled limbs. And then, of course, you have the

dragon's blood trees. On top of all that, you just get these incredible varied landscapes.

There's a network of caves that snake through the island for several miles.

There's massive dunes that drop right into the ocean.

And my favorite place was the Wadi's, which have these natural freshwater pools.

I swam in one that was longer than an Olympic pool, and it had this deep canyon running beneath it.

It was the highlight of the trip.

And you say that these plants have distinctive looks.

The dragon's blood tree has a pretty distinctive look.

Yeah, and it's really the emblem of Sukhotra.

It's on the currency.

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