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90% of Sri Lanka’s coral reefs dead: Officials

Sri Lanka, rich in coral reefs, had lost 90 percent of its corals in recent years mainly due to illegal fishing methods such as bottom trawling and dynamite blasting, excessive climate change and high levels of pollution dumped into the seas. 

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