Norfolk Broads: Conservation V. Commercialism

Alternative title: Norfolk Broads, The: No Easy Answers
Synopsis: Shows some of the practical ways in which the Broads Authority is improving the ecology of the open water, preserving the banks, and managing the landscape of Britain’s largest wetland. Features the biomanipulation of Ormesby Broad, where almost a million fish have been removed to allow the devastated population of water fleas to recover and clear the water of floating algae. Shows how more ecofriendly electric boats with low-wash hull designs and coconut matting are helping to preserve the banks and surrounding grazing marshes. Also looks at how the medieval origins of the broads, and the natural succession of plants that followed, are being studied by digging ‘turf ponds’, to help ecologists maintain the wetland.
Series: Ecology, Course S328
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1996
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Biology; Environmental science
Keywords: conservation - environment; ecology; ecosystems; Norfolk; river engineering

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