Animals and Demining

Updated Jan. 1, 1999

Notes on Documention and Bibliography

Animals are used to detect and detonate landmines.

Detection

• RCC - FAQ: Humanitarian Demining with Dogs

• U.S. brings out latest weapon against Bosnia mines

• World's Scientists Learn New Ways to Clear Deadly Land Mines
  Soure: (Belsie, 1997)

• Gingerly Steps Toward Demining the Globe
  Soure:(battersby, 1994)

• Cambodia's Canine Clearers to Tackle Landmines

Organization with MIne Detecting Dogs

Humanity Dog

Detonation

• Swedish journalist: Margite Fransson, wrote in her article: "Reconstruction of Sanski Most" (Sanski Most is a town in western part of Bosnia, my comment), published in the paper Byggnads arbetaren (Building Worker, issued biweekly by The Swedish Building-workers Syndicate), No. 21 , 1997: p. 8
  ".. but locals have discovered a method for demining on their own way, so called sheep-demining. They leet sheep go loose into the insecure areas."
  Thanks to Novi Travnik of MEDEX Mine Awareness Camp for Children for sending and translating this report.

• In El Salvador, pigs were used to find and detonate mines.
  Soure:(Arana, 1992)

• "During Iran's 1980-1988 war with Iraq. entire classes of boys were brought to the front as "scouts" and sent forward over enemy minefields. Tehran had previously used sheep, but decided even kids were to be involved in the war effort."
  Soure: (Chelmminski, 1994. p.29)

• In a report on Zimbabwe:
  "Many people could not return to their villages and farms after their independence. Those who did pushed their cattle ahead to detonate the mines."

There may be more articles in the Landmines and Environment Scrapbook

If you have any information regarding the impact of landmines on animals, please E-mail me at puppydog@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca.

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