article_snippet: This image shows an a warning sign in an area littered with explosives .
article_snippet: While there was peace, the land remained sown with mine fields.
article_snippet: Here, a member of Thailand's First Humanitarian Mine Action Unit uses a mine detecting dog to search for land mines .
article_snippet: Some of the creatures are trained by the charity Apopo and are used to detect explosives in Tanzania and Mozambique, which has many unexploded mines after decades of civil war.
article_snippet: Nearly 120,000 of the unexploded devices remain in more than 9,400 carefully marked minefields.
highlights_snippet: Skill could be used to find buried landmines in former areas of conflict .
  