Ronin mice

The mice that discover the landmines in Cambodia have achieved a new global record to become the first rodents to reveal more than 100 mine and other dead war.

“Ronin, the African giant mice, revealed 109 landmines and 15 elements of munitions that have been useless since 2021,” Ronin said in a statement.

Cambodia is still full of millions of unexplained munitions after about 20 years of civil war that ended in 1998.

The Guinness Book of World Records said that “Ronin’s decisive work” has a real difference for people who had to live with “the fear that one of them while their daily lives could be the last.”

APOPO, which is based in Tanzania, currently contains 104 recruits of rodents, or Herrats, where he loves non -profit contact with them.

Mice are trained to inhale the chemicals in landmines and other deserted weapons in the battlefields. Because of their small size, mice are not heavy enough to detonate mines.

The Charitable Society says that mice can check an area of ​​the Tennis Court in about 30 minutes.

They can also detect tuberculosis, which is a contagious disease that usually affects the lungs, Many faster than it can be found in the laboratory Using a traditional microscope, Abuo says.

Ronin’s impressive works in the Bra Welle Villa Province in Cambodia have exceeded the previous record that took place, a mouse inhaled 71 mine. It was presented with a gold medal For his hero in 2020.

Since APOPO began 25 years ago, the organization has cleared 169,713 floor mines and other explosives worldwide – more than 52000 in Cambodia. The charity also works in other countries affected by the war, including Ukraine, South Sudan and Azerbaijan.

There is still between four to six million landmines and other explosive munitions buried in Cambodia, according to the Land screen.