A Socotran birdwatcher
A Socotran birdwatcher A Guest Blog by Ruslan Amin Gumaan Hello! I am Ruslan Amin Gumaan, from Socotra Island, Yemen.
Socotra celebrates World Bird of Prey Day
Guest blog by Ahmed Saeed Suleiman On Yemen’s island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean we
YEMEN (INCLUDING SOCOTRA)
Afghanistan – Armenia – Azerbaijan – Bahrain – Cyprus – Egypt – Georgia – Iran – Iraq – Israel – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Lebanon – Oman – Qatar – Saudi Arabia – South West Russia – Syria
The OSME expedition to Yemen in 1985 – personal reflections
Guest blog by Chris Bowden The opportunity to spend two months in the field in North Yemen (as it was
Vulture News from the Middle East
The following short vulture updates from across the Middle East are reproduced with the permission of the IUCN Vulture Specialist
Yemen
8 – 25 January 1995 Selected list of birds seen in Yemen (Sana’a-area) In Sana’a in the garden of the
Yemen
Yemen Trip Report 17 Oct – 7 Nov 1992 Birding trip report From the home of friends in the capital
Conservation of Socotra’s biodiversity: a dream to be achieved
A guest blog by Abdulkarim Nasher, Ali Yahya Mahroos, Ahmed Saeed Suleiman & Haifa S. Baziyad Socotra, Yemen’s special island,
Prominent hunters from Middle East and Africa sign declaration on responsible hunting
OSME is pleased to learn that progress is being made on developing an approach to sustainable hunting in the Middle
Publications & Resources
Socotra Bird List
The latest edition of the Socotra Bird List (July 2013) by Richard Porter and Ahmed Saeed Suleiman has been added
Conservation & Threats
Arabian Leopard Appeal, Eastern Yemen
While the Arabian Leopard Panthera pardus nimr is strictly speaking not within the remit of OSME, we feel that the
People & Awards
Socotra (Yemen) Prize for Socotra Project website
The Socotra Governance & Biodiversity Project website (www.socotraproject.org) has been awarded the gold prize in the Yemen Web Awards 2009.