Isn’t it wonderful that anti-landmine campaigners won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Let us not forget that landmines still create horror around the globe today. I was surfing tonight and found that scientists have successfully trained bees to find landmines. A quarter of a million have been trained in Serbia and are on the way to different areas to find mines. If the outcome is as good as is hoped bees will be trained in other countries and used to locate mines in dangerous areas. The bees are being trained to associate the smell of dynamite with the presence of food. Dynamite is often used in making land mines. In an ironically sad circle of events, let’s remember too that Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite left his Peace Prize as a way of attempting to make amends for the terrible uses his invention was put to.
There is some useful information here http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/nobel.prize/stories/internet.coalition/index.htmlÂ