By Mongabay.com For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay.

Sri Lankan security personnel remove snow-like debris and plastic from the X-Press Pearl ship, which washed up on a beach at Pamunugama in Negombo, Sri Lanka. Gayan Sameera/Xinhua via Getty Images ...

Now Sri Lanka faces an environmental disaster. June 1, 2021 More than 4 years ago Sri Lankan beaches are covered with tons of plastic debris after a container ship fire.

SRI LANKA: MIA No More After the tsunami of 2004 and the resolution of a… For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010 ...