An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday.

Sponsor Message Daniel is one of a cohort of elite "rescue rats” currently enrolled at the Apopo training centre in the Tanzanian town of Morogoro. Since the early 2000s, Apopo’s African giant ...

In medical centres across Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, these rodents are already at work. With their extraordinary ...

APOPO "He's a very hardworking rat," Cindy Fast, head of APOPO's training and research efforts, tells PEOPLE of the group's star landmine-sniffing rodent Since 1979, nearly 20,000 people — many ...

Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that trains rats to detect unexploded ordnance, land mines and tuberculosis. APOPO’s rats have cleared more than 122 ...

It’s crucial work. An estimated 110 million landmines are still buried in over 60 countries around the world, said landmine detection nonprofit APOPO. In 2023, landmines caused 5,757 casualties ...

One of the best examples is the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem Reap, where you can meet HeroRATs and learn how this organization is helping countries become landmine-free for the first time in decades.

“Everybody’s first impression is that the rats are our enemies,” Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, says of the animals’ reputation in Africa and beyond.

Ronin is only five years old and could have two or more years of detection work ahead of him, according to Apopo, the charity that trained him. “The life-changing results of APOPO’s HeroRATs, their ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to ...