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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

An African giant pouched rat named Ronin is making a name for rodents everywhere by saving innocent civilians from hidden explosives.

Ronin the African giant pouched rat is one of more than 100 rats trained by a Belgian nonprofit to sniff out deadly land mines. Guinness World Records / APOPO Former conflict zones are littered ...

According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat named Ronin found 109 land mines to date in the small community of Sror Aem, Preah Vihear, Cambodia, and 15 more unexploded weapons from August 2021 to ...