Do animals get injured by landmines?
1) “It has become increasingly evident that animal activists need to join the fight to ban forever the use of violent, indiscriminate landmines that destroy the lives of both humans and nonhumans with their devastating force. In some instances, landmines directly threaten both people and animals. Reuters reporter Roger Atwood wrote in 1997 that roughly 20,000 landmines are strewn across the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, a remnant of Argentinean attempts to keep British by the mines since the war…but animals are regularly blown to pieces.” The mine fields are identified by fences and warning signs, but with “75,000 sheep, keeping the livestock from danger can be a struggle.” Meanwhile, “birdwatchers, one of the biggest groups of tourists, are especially vulnerable as they walk in search of penguins, ducks and songbirds.” In Sri Lanka, as many as 20 Asian elephants are killed by mines every year, according to zoologist Charles Santiapillai of the University of Peradeniya. Thousands of mil
