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Bart Weetjens: Teaching rats to sniff out landmines

January 5, 2011 by  
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Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his ‘hero rats’ in action, and previews his work’s next phase: teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.

Great Plains Conservation

December 22, 2010 by  
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“Is about finding the right formula between conservation, communities and commerce. Great Plains Conservation’s model takes stressed and threatened environments, surrounds them with compassionate protection and intelligent management. It’s an initiative to help curb the downward spiral of our threatened natural world by being proactive today, and by applying what they know best. This is […]

APOPO

December 3, 2010 by  
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“Initiated in response to the global landmine problem APOPO recognised that most mine-clearance techniques in use were slow and expensive. The humanitarian community had called for a more efficient method for the detection of landmines and un-exploded ordnance (UXO) in order to facilitate the repatriation of refugees and distribution of emergency aid. An analysis of […]