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The Resource Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve, Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, produced and directed by Olly Bootle, (streaming video)

Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve, Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, produced and directed by Olly Bootle, (streaming video)

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This stage of Simon Reeve's journey around the spectacular Indian Ocean takes him from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh. The island of Sri Lanka, with its strategic location and tropical spices, was a target for invaders and colonisers for centuries. Now the Chinese are building a huge new port in the south, and Chinese money has helped the Sri Lankan government bring a 30-year war to an end. Simon also visits the north of the island - scene of vicious battles between fighters from the Tamil minority and the Sri Lankan army. Heading north, Simon investigates one of the Indian Ocean's fastest growing industries - providing prawns for the West. Off the coast of India, thousands of prawn trawlers drag their nets along the sea bed devastating the marine environment. In Bangladesh, huge prawn farms flood the fertile land with salt water, which also causes concern for the environment. It is all to provide cheap prawns for Western supermarkets. This leg of the journey ends with one of the most amazing sights of the whole Indian Ocean: the ship-breaking beaches of Chittagong, where dozens of huge tankers and container ships are beached before being broken up for scrap by vast armies of low-paid Bangladeshi workers living in terrible conditions
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eng
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Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve, Sri Lanka to Bangladesh
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Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve
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Sri Lanka to Bangladesh
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produced and directed by Olly Bootle
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eng
Summary
This stage of Simon Reeve's journey around the spectacular Indian Ocean takes him from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh. The island of Sri Lanka, with its strategic location and tropical spices, was a target for invaders and colonisers for centuries. Now the Chinese are building a huge new port in the south, and Chinese money has helped the Sri Lankan government bring a 30-year war to an end. Simon also visits the north of the island - scene of vicious battles between fighters from the Tamil minority and the Sri Lankan army. Heading north, Simon investigates one of the Indian Ocean's fastest growing industries - providing prawns for the West. Off the coast of India, thousands of prawn trawlers drag their nets along the sea bed devastating the marine environment. In Bangladesh, huge prawn farms flood the fertile land with salt water, which also causes concern for the environment. It is all to provide cheap prawns for Western supermarkets. This leg of the journey ends with one of the most amazing sights of the whole Indian Ocean: the ship-breaking beaches of Chittagong, where dozens of huge tankers and container ships are beached before being broken up for scrap by vast armies of low-paid Bangladeshi workers living in terrible conditions
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Previously released as DVD.
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In English
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  • Bootle, Olly
  • Reeve, Simon
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
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60
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  • Geography
  • Aquatic ecology
  • Ecosystem management
  • Bangladesh
  • Indian Ocean Region
  • Sri Lanka
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adult
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Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve, Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, produced and directed by Olly Bootle, (streaming video)
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1 online resource (60 min.)
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online
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sound on medium
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Label
Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve, Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, produced and directed by Olly Bootle, (streaming video)
Publication
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  • unknown
  • other
Extent
1 online resource (60 min.)
Form of item
online
Reformatting quality
access
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
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  • remote
  • other
Video recording format
other

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