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Magawa, Cambodia’s landmine-sniffing “Hero Rat”

According to APOPO, (a Belgian charity group that trains animals to find unexploded ordnance) during his five-year tenure, he cleared more than 225,000 square meters of land (about 31 football fields) and unearthed 71 landmines and 38 unexploded munitions. Magawa was born and raised at the Tanzania’s Sokoine University of Agriculture, where he honed his…