Cambodia deploys new batch of rat recruits to sniff out landmines
Preah Vihear, CambodiaReuters Cambodia has deployed its next generation of rat recruits to sniff out landmines as part of efforts to boost de-mining operations in a country plagued for decades by unexploded ordnance. Twenty African giant pouched rats were recently imported from Tanzania and have undergone intense training. A mine detection rat sniffs for landmines […]
ARMAMENTS: TURNING BOMBS INTO BRACELETS AS LAOS VILLAGERS WAIT FOR SAFE LAND
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…