The people of Cambodia are at risk from thousands of unexploded ordnance. Explosive remnants of war kill or injure dozens of people every year.
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With the help of other countries, Cambodia is slowly clearing the ground of unexploded ordnance, but the work is very time-consuming.
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Therefore, rats are taken to the rescue, and one of them is the laureate Magava. The rat was trained by the Belgian NGO APOPO, headquartered in Tanzania.
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APOPO trains rats to find landmines by smelling them.
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The African giant rat is much larger than the ordinary rat, but is still light enough not to detonate when climbing a mine.
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In seven years, Magava has discovered 39 mines and 28 explosives, helping to clear more than 141,000 square meters of land. Magava anti-personnel mines search so fast that you can survey an area the size of a tennis court in 30 minutes.
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