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With its work since 2021 in the Preah Vihear province, Ronin has surpassed the legacy of Magawa, who passed away in 2022 ...

Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has entered the Guinness World Records for detecting over 100 landmines in Cambodia.

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 ...

Ronin, a specially trained rat deployed to Cambodia, has helped locate more than 100 anti-personnel landmines littered around ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

In Cambodia alone, these explosives have caused more than 65,000 deaths since 1979. In other words, Ronin and other rats like ...

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

Cambodia remains one of the world's most heavily landmined countries, owing to the deadly civil war that ended in 1998.

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

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

Between August 2021 and February 2025, Ronin uncovered 109 landmines and 15 other pieces of unexploded ordnance in a region close to Siem Reap in Cambodia, according to Guinness World Records.