APOPO

Acronym	Definition
APOPO	Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (Dutch: Anti-Personnel Landmines Detection Product Development; Belgium)

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Meas Sambath, who is one of three guides at the APOPO centre and showing Tienhooven and Peterson around that day, says he does not like to focus too much on Cambodia's tragic recent history, but instead look to positives in the present and future - including the rats.

Siem Reap's APOPO Visitor Center celebrates giant demining rodents

Just over a year ago, the South Africa-based Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) announced it was teaming up with Apopo on a pilot project aimed at detecting illegal pangolin and timber samples.

Miniature sleuths to sniff out transnational wildlife crooks

Over the next few years, APOPO plans to fight tuberculosis at the source by launching TB-detection rat facilities in major cities of 30 high-risk countries including Vietnam, India and Nigeria.

Could giant rats help fight tuberculosis in major cities?

She works for the People's Postcode Lottery, which funds APOPO, and had won her place on the memorable trip.

Escape from the rat trap; Pet talk; EXCLUSIVE

Finally, in Tanzania and Mozambique, APOPO vzw has trained giant pouched rats for the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in sputum samples.

Animal olfactory detection of disease: promises and pitfalls

'The most important reason we work with rats is that they have a very sensitive sense of smell and can be trained to detect TNT, the explosive mostly used in landmines,' says Kim Warren, Country Programme Director of APOPO Cambodia.

Boomtown rats: giant African rats will soon be undertaking an important and dangerous job in Cambodia; locating the millions of unexploded landmines left over after over 30 years of conflict

APOPO first started its research in 1998 and has now been successfully used in more than 60 countries.

Rom sniffing out his next target - rats

Apopo pampers the rats, which get better health care than most Angolans.

The Giant Rats That Save Lives

A group called APOPO had such good results with trained rats that it has deployed them to detect mines in Angola and Mozambique and uses them in Tanzania to screen people for tuberculosis by evaluating sputum samples.

Dogs, rats, even bees are used in land mine hunts

Through his organization, called APOPO, Weetjens trains rats to find TB by using their noses.

Rats to the rescue: how giant rats are using their noses to save lives

Mine clearance charity Apopo has received PS60,000 to put giant Gambian pouched rats through eight months of training to detect the explosive TNT.

Boomtown rats; Britain gives PS60k to train giant rodents to sniff out landmines