I'd like to share this video of a low cost tumbleweed like device that slowly clears landmines
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=99tsY2nsTkE
'Mine Kafon' is a "low-cost wind-powered mine detonator with the appearance of a giant, spiky-armed tumbleweed."
There's an estimated 110 million mines still buried around the world. The inventor of 'Mine Kafon' – a former Afghan refugee – hopes it will inspire others to join the effort to make the world mine-free by 2027.
Also these rats in Cambodia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APOPO
APOPO (Dutch: Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling1 ) is a registered Belgian non-governmental organisation and US non-profit which trains southern giant pouched rats1 and technical survey dogs to detect landmines and tuberculosis.2 They call their trained animals HeroRATs and HeroDOGs.3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magawa
Magawa (November 2013 – January 2022) was a Southern giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei) that worked as a HeroRAT sniffing out landmines in Cambodia for the non-governmental organization APOPO (in English, Anti-Personnel Landmines Removal Product Development) which trains rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. Magawa was the most successful landmine-sniffing rat in the organization's history, and received the PDSA Gold Medal in 2020.
Finally, this map of which counties signed the Ottawa Treaty vs. those who are still contributing to the problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
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