Ecological disaster as Japanese carrier spills 1,000 tonnes of crude oil on pristine beaches of Mauritius - fears it could break in half

Around 1,000 tons of oil have been spilt into the Indian Ocean after an oil tanker ran aground on a coral reef
MV Wakashio has been hemorrhaging oil across coral reefs and lush shores populated by endangered species
Aerial images show the enormous scale of the disaster with black oil leaking into the white-sand beaches
Mauritius has declared an unprecedented environmental emergency amid fears of permanent damage
Vessel ran aground on July 25 but little had been done to extricate it until it began bleeding oil this week
There are now grave concerns that rough seas rolling in will further fracture the ship and cause more leakage

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More destruction. And we wonder why everything's going wrong.