The Haghier Mountains and the endemic croton forest

The path to the top of the Dixam plateau

The steep canyon of Wadi Dahero cuts through the high plateau in the heart of Socotra

Cattle in the shade of a dragon-tree

The view of a typical fresh water lagoon at Socotrai

Fishermen on the beach at Hadiboh

Sunset at the Dixam Plateau

A hundred-year-old offspring

Collectors of dragon's blood, or dragon-trees' resin

A bottle-shaped tree - a Bottle Tree - towering above the lagoon

A dragon-tree in the mountains

Socotran fishermen outside Hadiboh

A view of the Qalansiah lagoon

Sand dunes around Qalansiah

A fisherman's wife on the beach in the evening

A Yemeni soldier standing guard on the horizon

Dr. Edoardo Zandri, manager of the UNDP program for the protection of the island of Socotra

Sheh, head of the Socotran fishing association

The portrait of Sheh Ali

The sandy lagoon of Qalansiah

A lagoon of Qalansiah

Dr. Edoardo Zandri, manager of the UNDP program for the protection of the island of Socotra

Dr. Omar, a Yemeni ornithologist, bird-watching with Socotran children

A dying dragon-tree

The double crown of a fossilised tree

Collectors of resin, or dragon's blood

Socotran beaches and a blossoming bottle tree

The film crew of TV Slovenija

A dragon-tree

The old Ali mending fishing nets

The Sirwan Lagoon and the Haghier Mountains (The Rocky Mountains) in the background

Qalansiah, one of the Socotra lagoons

Dr. Edoardo Zandri
Dr. Abdelkader Bensada
Abdullateef Saad Amer
EPC/UNOP/ GEF Socotra Biodiversity Project Team
Dr. Omar Al-Saghieri
Yemen Ornithological Society, Bird Life International RY
Dr.Richard Porter
Dr. Michael Evans
Bird Life International GB
David Flumm, RSPB GB
Saleh Islamy
Shekh Rusgy Salem Amber
Amar Abdula Mubarak
Abdullgani Bin Salem
Shekh Ali

Inhabitants of Socotra and Hadiboh fishermen community

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Director
IGOR LIKAR

Script-writers
MIRAN HVALA
IGOR LIKAR

Director of photography
JANEZ KALIŠNIK

Written by
IGOR LIKAR

Consultant
MIRAN HVALA

Narrated by
JASNA RODOŠEK
IVAN LOTRIČ

Music
BOJAN JURJEVČIČ - JURKI

Editor
RUDI KRIŽANIČ

Sound editor
IGOR LALOŠ

Production Managers
FRANCI ZAJC
MIRAN HVALA

ARTS DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMES
Producer
BORO PIPEROVIČ
Editor
JANI VIRK

ART AND CULTURAL PROGRAMMES
Executive Editor
Dr.MELITA ZAJC

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Production secretary
VIDA VILHAR

Film processing Editor
SONJA GNEZDA POLZELNIK

Processing Technicians
DRAGICA STRMOLE
MARJANA CENTA

CAT Programmers
EMIL SVETLIK
BOŠTJAN SEKELJ

Graphics
MIRO GOMSI

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This film was assisted by

Hussein Mukbel
Abdulla Almutareb
Marco Livadiotti
Dr.Dietmar Quist
Ali Saleh Al Gamra
Amin Dirhem
Abdulla Al Gindari
Fawzi Mahyoub
Mohamed Baather
Faris Al Basha

Grateful acknowledgement is made to

YEMEN RADIO & TV CORPORATION
YEMEN AIRWAYS - YEMENIA
EPC/UNOP/ GEF SOCOTRA BIODIVERSITY PROJECT TEAM

MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM OB THE REPUBLIK OF YEMEN
UNIVERSAL TOURING COMPANY, YEMEN
YATA, YEMEN

INFOMEDIA, MILAN LJUBIČ

ADRIA AIRWAYS

MOBITEL D.D. SLOVENIJA

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FILMED IN MARCH 2000
KODAK COLOR 16

Copyright by ARSMEDIA

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AN ARSMEDIA LJUBLJANA PRODUCTION

COPRODUCED BY
YEMEN RADIO & TV CORPORATION

and

TV SLOVENIJA

2001

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CONTACTS:
Igor.likar@rtvslo.si
Franci.Zajc@arsmedia.si
Suzana.Prosenc@rtvslo.si