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HeroRATs-in-training may love their job, but that doesn't mean it's always an easy life! Landmine Detection recruits must wake up early every day a...

Meet Bravo & Myron, the newest recruits for the HeroRAT team. When they grow up, they will be Mine Detection Rats. An important part of the sociali...

HeroRAT Trainer, Peter, explains how APOPO utilizes trained African giant pouched rats to help with tuberculosis (TB) detection, significantly incr...

Move over, Kindle and iPad: this season's hottest holiday gifts have four legs, long tails, and sniffers even more useful than that of Rudolph the ...

2011 was a great year for APOPO and the HeroRATs, and we couldn't have done it without the help of our friends and fans! The team wants to show the...

Bart has found in rats a low-cost, scalable solution to pressing humanitarian challenges. His social enterprise APOPO trains local communities in u...

What started as a crazy idea is now saving lives around the world. Using their uniquely sensitive sense of smell, Weetjens trains rats to safely id...

Before APOPO's HeroRATs can begin landmine or TB Detection training, they must first become adjusted to the human world. Caretakers and trainers wi...

APOPO trains HeroRATs to save lives, by using their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out Tuberculosis (TB) in human sputum samples. The rats off...

What is the state of social entrepreneurship in 2011? TrustLaw talks to 11 big thinkers at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford.

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Alvin's Guide to Good Business 6 - Apopo Mine Detector Rats 2 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 05.03.2010

Business guru Alvin Hall travel...

Alvin's Guide to Good Business 5 - Apopo Mine Detector Rats 1 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 05.03.2010

Business guru Alvin Hall travel...

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Saving the humans from themselves...

For more information on the Hero Rats: http://herorat.org/

Artwork from my hero, Nath...

This is Bart Weetjens, a social entrepreneur based in Morogoro, Tanzania. He is telling On the Up the story of Apopo.

A project in Tanzania is teaching rats how to save human lives. Blessed with a keen sense of smell, they are being trained to detect land mines and...

http://www.ted.com At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of ...

DW-TV film of APOPO's HeroRATs at work, detecting landmines and tuberculosis.

To learn more about this life-saving work, visit APOPO's website: ht...

APOPO's HeroRATs are trained to save lives in Tanzania by detecting tuberculosis (TB) in human sputum samples. On average, a lab technician can pro...

HeroRATs are trained by APOPO to save lives and limbs, by using their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out unexploded landmines and tuberculosis...

HeroRATs are trained by APOPO to save lives and limbs, by using their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out unexploded landmines and tuberculosis...

HeroRATs are trained by APOPO to save lives and limbs, by using their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out unexploded landmines and tuberculosis...