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Giant Rats Turned Heroes

30-Aug-16 18:00

Giant Rats Turned Heroes

APOPO is a Belgian nonprofit that is training African giant pouched rats to sniff out landmines and tuberculosis. We speak to Paul McCarthy from the team to learn more about detection rat technology, and to find out about APOPO's efforts in Cambodia.


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Tags:  Evening Edition,  HeroRATs,  Paul McCarthy,  APOPO,  Cambodia,  Landmines,  Tuberculosis,  African giant pouched rat,  Detection rat technology,  Other personality interviews,  Politics, News, Current Affairs


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