How giant African rats are helping uncover deadly land mines in Cambodia

From Fred de Sam Lazaro / PBS NewsHour: Cambodia is littered with unexploded land mines, posing a huge threat to people even decades after the conflict. In order to help locate and remove mines, a unique organization named Apopo trains rats to sniff them out. Rats have extremely sensitive noses and have found about 500 mines and more than 350 unexploded bombs in Cambodia since 2016. The drawback is the pace of the long, tedious, and dangerous work.

Three men in blue outfits are shown holding rats and a clipboard
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September 10, 2019

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