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Tests start for CMAC’s rats


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Cambodia may have a new, and decidedly low-tech, tool for clearing active landmine fields: rats.

This month, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) began testing the effectiveness of rats trained to sniff out landmines and other explosives in areas of the Kingdom where decades-old bombs remain buried, CMAC director general Heng Rattana said yesterday.

“Our plan to test, we believe, will take three to four months to complete,” Rattana said. “We just started testing this month.”

Working with demining group APOPO, which trains the rats, CMAC has imported 10 of the nearly half-metre rodents from Tanzania...

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tests-start-cmacs-rats

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