Photos: Catastrophic oil spill in Sunderbans wrecks havoc with rare ecosystem

[caption id=“attachment_1846889” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Oil from a Bangladeshi oil-tanker is seen on the Shela River in the Sunderbans in Mongla. The tanker carrying an estimated 357,000 litres of oil collided on 9 December with another vessel and partly sank in the Sunderbans’ Shela river, home to rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1846893” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  In this photograph a Bangladeshi oil-tanker lies half-submerged after it was hit by a cargo vessel on the Shela River. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1846895” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  In this photograph, oil from a Bangladeshi oil-tanker is seen on the Shela River in the Sunderbans. Officials warned that the oil spill from a crashed tanker is threatening endangered dolphins and other wildlife in the massive Sunderbans mangrove region, branding the leak an ecological “catastrophe”. AFP[/caption]