Mission / end state
Our goal is a world free from the threat.
UXO.ECO exists because unexploded ordnance and other explosive remnants of war still put people, communities, land, and water at risk. The long-term aim is for this site to become unnecessary.
What we mean
Clear the threat. Keep the truth.
We support the objective of finding, clearing, removing, or safely destroying known explosive hazards through trained professionals, accountable institutions, and established standards. We also support the records, local capacity, risk education, and environmental care that make that work durable.
UXO.ECO does not promise that every item can be located or that an area can be known to be free of every possible explosive object. Ordnance can be buried, submerged, undocumented, displaced, or discovered decades later.
Responsible mine action works from evidence. It applies professional survey, defined land-release processes, and all reasonable effort—not impossible promises of absolute certainty.
Residual reality
Completion and certainty are not the same thing.
International Mine Action Standards recognize residual contamination and residual risk: hazards or risk that may remain after all reasonable effort has been applied. A later discovery needs a serious response, but it is not automatically proof that a responsibly documented clearance process failed.
The practical end state is not pretending that uncertainty has disappeared. It is a world where explosive remnants no longer shape daily life, and where sustainable national systems can respond safely to the exceptional discovery that still occurs.
The archive we hope for
One day, this should be historical record.
Until the threat is gone, UXO.ECO should help people understand the issue, locate reliable sources, and leave hazardous objects to trained professionals. It is not a clearance organization or an emergency service.
Our best possible future is for UXO.ECO to remain online only as an archive: evidence of a problem people once had to warn one another about.
Read the standards and source library