#magawa

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[milkdongcomics]

May Landmine-Sniffing Rat Magawa rest in peace. HERO RAT in " HEY HUMAN, GUESS WHAT THIS IS!? " Instagram 👈🏻 Facebook 👈🏻 Magawa (November 2013 – January 2022) was an African giant pouched rat that worked as a HeroRAT sniffing out landmines in Cambodia for the non-governmental organization APOPO (in English, Anti-Personnel Landmines Removal Product Development) which trains rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. Magawa was the most successful landmine-sniffing rat in the organization's history, and received the PDSA Gold Medal in 2020.

[authorkims]

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Magawa, the landmine-sniffing hero rat, dies aged eight

Magawa was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing landmines in Cambodia.

R.I.P. Magawa, life-saving rat. 

You did more good in this world with your eight years of rat-life than some humans do in eighty. 

[gorryb]

He's a true hero!!! Have a happy retirement♡

[boyduroy]

A rat named Magawa, who has died during retirement at the age of eight, sniffed out dozens of land mines over the course of his career in Cambodia. He is believed to have saved lives and has been widely lauded as a hero. - NPR.com

We lost a good one, lads. Rest in Peace you funky bomb-sniffing rat ✨

[jennifercrowart]

Magawa was an African giant pouched rat trained by APOPO to sniff out landmines for clearing in Cambodia! He even won the PDSA gold medal for his "life-saving devotion to duty" in 2020, and was the first rat to ever be given this medal! He recently passed away at the old age of 8, in retirement ;;

Thank you for all of your hard work, Magawa! It's always Full Cheek Friday over the rainbow bridge ;;

[thehappybroadcast]

Magawa is a true hero rat. Let’s drop a 🐀 in the comment box below! Magawa has being honored with one of the highest awards in the animal world after he has potentially saved numerous lives for clearing landmines from fields in Cambodia. Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, was awarded a gold medal from the PDSA, a British veterinary charity, for his work over the past seven years leading to the detection of 39 landmines and 28 unexploded items and clearing more than 20 soccer fields in the process. The rat is the most successful in the history of APOPO, a charity organization that has trained him and other rodents since the 1990s to detect landmines. The PDSA has awarded its gold medal to 29 other animals, all dogs, for "animal bravery and exceptional devotion to duty." The medal for Magawa was specially designed to fit onto his work harness, said Jan McLoughlin, PDSA's director general. Source: USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/09/25/rat-magawa-gets-pdsa-gold-medal-detecting-landmines-cambodia/3528457001/