Albania
- William J. Kole reports:
"Albanian men have fished this way for decades, their unorthodox tackle including homemade explosives, hand grenades, even antitank mines."
Angola
- Stiftung Menschen gegen Minen reports on mines being used to hunt elephants
"People of the village of Mulondo in southern Angola took anti-tank mines from a mine-belt surrounding their village and planted them into the traditional elephant migration paths of the Mupa National Park. As elephants flee strictly straight ahead, the whole herd was massacred here..."
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- Panafrican News Agency reports:
According to the head of the local office of the Institute for Forest Development, Severino Bango, the animals were found dead without their tusks, which are traded in Angola and Namibia. He said that the elephants [30] were killed with guns and landmines planted at drinking places.
Cambodia
- The Khmer Rouge finance weapon purchases by poaching:
"Tiger skins and bone are expensive in China, so the Khmer Rouge can afford guns and anti-tank mines." said Leng Sochea, Cambodia's deputy director-general for information." (Rufford, 1995)
- Irrawaddy River Dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) are being killed by explosives, maked from landmines, used for fishermen on the Mekong River.
... death by explosives used by Cambodian fishermen. The project's policy has been to reimburse Lao fishermen the cost of the gill-net they must cut in order to free an entangled dolphin but to stop the use of explosives in Cambodian waters is difficult without Cambodian cooperation. Fashioned from landmines, the explosives are deployed during the dry season when the water level is low. Although it is prohibited in Laos, fish caught in this manner find a market there. The purchase of such fish undermines the protection the dolphins have in Laos as an endangered species.
- South China Morning Post reports that poachers are using landmines to kill tigers. (Compton, 1999)
China
Environment News Service reports:
"... We found land mines put by the salt water springs. So when the camels come to drink they step on them, bang. They are blown to pieces and picked up as meat."
India
- Col. Percy Blasher-Snell reports:
"'And sadly, in March of 1994, he put his foot on a bomb. It blew his foot off, and he walked to the forest pool and lay down, and over the course of four or five days died beside the pool. We were all upset about it, because of all the elephants that this had to happen to, it had to happen to this magnificent animal, Tulahati.'"(Dead URL: http://www.c4support.bss.org/stuck/bardia/bardia.html)
- And in the book Mammoth Hunt:
"The poor beast had walkedinto a booby-trap bomb set just over the Indian border by poachers looking for deer. A foot had been terribly damaged and when discovered by farmers, he was lying in a pool of water, bleeding profusely. From within Nepal the good Colonel and the Sukla Phanta Warden did all they could to get help to the stricken animal, but cross-border bureaucracy and the inital delay of the incident being reporteed to the authorities beat them. So died one one of the greatest elephants that ever lived." (Blashford-Snell, 1997 p. 169)
Indo-Pacific
- World Wildlife Fund reports that unexploded bombs from World War II are used for fishing and are cause sever damage to tropical reefs.
Loas
- See Cambodia
Nepal
- See India
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