The Apopo project has so far flushed out 169,713 terrestrial mines and other explosives in several regions of the world.
As a statement from Guinness of Records specifies, Ronin would have, between August 2021 and February 2025, discovered more than a hundred terrestrial mines (109 to be precise). All these bombs were in Cambodia, in the Siem Reap region, in the northwest of the country.
40,000 injured due to bombs in Cambodia
Cambodia is indeed one of the most undermined countries in the world, due to 30 years of civil war coupled with American bombing in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. This operation, called “menu”, totaled “3,875 air missions and 108,823 tonnes of dropped bombs ”, According to an article published by Antoine Coppolani, professor of contemporary history. As AFP said, according to the authorities, 20,000 people have been killed in Cambodia since 1977, and 40,000 were injured.
The kingdom had subsequently promised that all these bombs, which greatly threaten the lives of the locals, would be eliminated by 2025. This five -year -old rat already makes it possible to bring its stone to the building. Ronin succeeded another rat, Magawa who died of old age at the age of eight in January 2022. He had found 71 bombs, and had retired in 2021.
Ronin is not just a good worker: he is also friendly and relaxed!
Ronin is a “Herorates” who works for Apopo, a project created in 1977, which aims “To teach the giant African rats (CICICETOMYS Ansorgei) to detect the chemicals contained in the abandoned mines and other weapons abandoned after the wars”This project is in collaboration with the University of Agriculture of Sokoine, in Tanzani, where the rats come from.
“” “Ronin's success probably comes from his concentration, his sense of rigorous work and his love for problem solving ” Apopo's Lily Shallom of Apopo's press release for Ronin's press release, in addition to doing an excellent job, is also friendly and relaxed.
For Phanny, the principal of Ronin, this work also proves the incredible potential of rats as well as their intelligence. It is the Belgian scientist Bart Weetjens who for the first time realizes the extraordinary potential of rats, who have an extraordinary smell and can be set up to discover the bombs. It is a more profitable animal than a dog, and it allows you to secure an area in record time.
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