Experts from the United Nations Environment Programme met with Sri Lanka officials on Monday to address the environmental damage, weeks after a cargo ship laden with chemicals sank off its western coast in what is already the country's worst ever man-made environmental disaster.
Dozens of marine life, including dolphins, turtles and even a blue whale have been washed ashore.
Ecologists believe the deaths were directly caused by the fire and release of hazardous chemicals while the Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl burned for 12 days and sank last week off Sri Lanka’s main port in the capital Colombo.
