Apopo (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! APOPO, a non-profit organization, trains African Giant Pouched Rats, also known as giant pouched rats or Gambian pouched rats, to detect land mines and tuberculosis. Bart Weetens, a Belgian national, founded APOPO to provide a low-technology solution to the global land mine problem. Once the effectiveness of the rats had been proven, he further realized that they are capable of detecting active tuberculosis in human sputum samples. APOPO calls these rats HeroRATS because this technology is cheaper and more efficient than most widely available mine clearance and TB detection techniques. APOPO's overall objective is to use sniffer rats to save human lives.