Landmines

Landmines kill 15,000 to 20,000 people every year, many of them children.

Landmines are cheap to put in place, but expensive to remove.

Watch out for landmines.

APOPO, a global nonprofit organization in Tanzania, has developed an innovative method of detecting landmines and tuberculosis by using African giant pouched rats' extraordinary sense of smell.

American researcher Ellie Cutright works with African giant pouched rats that are trained to detect landmines.

The DMZ is full of landmines.

“I do think it’s important that there be a proper tribute to Princess Diana,” royal author Fitzwilliams told VOA. “She had a truly extraordinary life, and indeed her reaching out to AIDS sufferers and also her campaign against landmines are titanic achievements. If you consider the way also that the British people took her so much to their hearts and the outpouring of grief when she tragically died.”

The rats we use to help us find landmines are easy to house and feed. They only eat fruits and vegetables that are grown locally, and the training takes about a year, so there's not such a long time that we have to house them, to pay for them and pay for the training.

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is urging people all over the world to roll up their pant leg Wednesday in a show of solidarity for victims of these weapons.

The landmines are intact.