“It’s a catastrophe for the delicate ecology of the Sundarbans,” Amir Hossain, chief forest official of the Sundarbans, told AFP. “The oil spill has already blackened the shoreline, threatening trees, plankton, and vast populations of small fishes and dolphins.” “Animals have started to die,” reported The Daily Star. “The water hyacinths on the two rivers have turned black. Some Golpata trees have gone under heavy layers of oil. One local, Abu Jafar, spotted two animals—a monitor lizard and an otter—dead and smeared with oil” along a riverbank. Animals that come to the river to drink will also be harmed, one expert told the Star. takepart/article/2014/12/12/rare-dolphins-oil-spill-sundarbans-mangrove-bangladesh?cmpid=ait-fb
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