Synopsis
Vietnam has lost nearly 40,000 square miles of forest since 1972. Simon Reeve visits Yok Don National Park, where wildlife is being protected by a small band of park rangers.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: The Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Geography | Globalisation, trade and interdependence | Globalisation and global trade | Impact of global trade
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