Cambodia has one of the highest concentrations of landmines in the world. APOPO is a non-profit organization who help save thousands of lives with rats that quickly find these unexploded landmines.

Specially trained HeroRATS are saving lives in Cambodia by detecting hidden landmines with their exceptional sense of smell. APOPO, the non-profit behind this initiative, reports over 107,000 ...

All of this is done in association with the Belgian-registered and Tanzania-based NGO APOPO, whose achievements include training gold medal winner Magawa the rat, who helped find 71 landmines and ...

Rats are often seen as pests and vermin, but they can also do useful jobs for us, like hunting for landmines. To aid in their work, [kjwu] designed the RatPack, a wearable device that lets these ...

Rats save lives Yes, really. Rats can be trained to recognise the smell of explosives. They are then used to detect landmines in countries like Cambodia, where millions of active landmines remain ...

President Trump has pressed pause on helping clear unexploded bombs, many of which were dropped by the US in the Vietnam war.