Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant on Wednesday said environmental cooperation between India and Sri Lanka is not a matter of charity or diplomacy but a matter of survival.

Speaking at an event at the Faculty of Law in University of Colombo on the topic of 'Indo-Sri Lanka Policy Dialogue: Advancing Environmental Sustainability and Regional Cooperation', Justice Kant said the Bay of Bengal "does not divide us but binds the two countries through a shared ecological fate".

He said the Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar are biodiversity hotspots, home to coral reefs, seagrass meadows and endangered species but these regions are under severe stress due to overfishing, destructive trawling practices and unregulated coastal construction that have caused ecosystem collapse in parts of this marine e

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