Some consider rats, not to be confused with mice, as pests. Others deem them lifesavers. One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and ...

Across the world, there are estimated to be over 110 million landmines still buried in more than 60 countries. According to the Mine Action Review, in 2023, there were 1,431 deaths and 5,241 recorded ...

Elizabeth Bowen Visiting Cambodia some years ago, I came upon a band of musicians busking at the side of the road. The dozen ...

Former conflict zones are littered with land mines, a type of controversial concealed weapon designed to kill or maim anyone ...

A Westmeath woman has expressed her surprise and pride after a landmine-hunting rat that she adopted in Cambodia set a world ...

The Belgian non-profit APOPO announced that Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, had become the most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) in the organization’s history, earning a Guinness World Record ...

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has tracked down 109 landmines and 15 other potentially deadly war remnants since his ...

For nearly three decades, Apopo has been training rats to detect landmines, and Ronin is one of their standout trainees. Like ...

Ronin is one of more than 100 rats trained by APOPO to detect the scent of the explosive chemicals and point landmines out to their handlers. Ronin, who is 5 years old and was born in Tanzania, is ...

Ronin, who is five years old, is one of 104 rodents trained to sniff landmines by the Belgian non-profit Apopo. A landmine sniffing rat is making headlines around the world. Ronin, an African giant ...

Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness World Records ...

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday.