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Opinion: Support Your Local Hero Rat

By Laurel Anne HillAug 17th 2010 – 5:30AM
Steve Ringman, Seattle Times / MCT

Steve Ringman, Seattle Times / MCT

(Aug. 17) -- Giant pouched African rats have a nose for success. APOPO, a registered charity in Belgium and based in Tanzania, has trained these long-whiskered critters to sniff out unexploded land mines and save human lives. Working for rewards of banana slices and peanuts, "Hero Rats" schooled in Tanzania have become...

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  • 04/04/12 President Obama: Join the Treaty to Ban Landmines Source: The Huffington Post The United States should act on its recent condemnation of Syria's use of antipersonnel landmines by joining the international ban on these weapons, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • 11/24/11 Burma Finds Company as Layer of Landmines Source: The Irrawaddy - Thailand After being named the only country laying new landmines last year, Burma has been joined in 2011 by three other countries—Israel, Libya and Syria—as part of the exclusive club of nations still actively employing the deadly explosives, according to a new report by anti-landmine campaigners.

Background on landmines

A land mine is an explosive device, concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets as they pass over or near the device.

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