Not that like, children and adults getting blown up by land mines isn't sad enough on its own already, but now I'm thinking about the non-zero amount of wildlife that was just minding its own fucking business before getting blown up by a landmine that was put there by some asshole (to defend against another asshole) :(

I choose to believe this was a dud and the bear is fine!

There are three seconds between those pictures.

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

I remember a story a friend of mine from Serbia told me about land mines still being found in the woods. He said they would still go off every once in a while if a deer stood on them, and you find remnants of deer in the bushes and trees. Also, when it got really cold, the ground would shrink and sometimes they'd go off then as well.

Is bear meat good? Anyone tried it?