detect landmines | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:41:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 detect landmines | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Christophe Cox, co-founder and CEO of APOPO https://talkinganimals.net/2017/12/christophe-cox-co-founder-and-ceo-of-apopo/ https://talkinganimals.net/2017/12/christophe-cox-co-founder-and-ceo-of-apopo/#respond Wed, 27 Dec 2017 05:00:15 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=6550 Christophe Cox—co-founder and CEO of APOPO, a Tanzania-based nonprofit organization that trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and to detect tuberculosis—recounts the genesis of the organization, when co-founder Bart Weetjens began contemplating whether the rodents he kept as pets could be taught to find landmines, and drafted his friend, Cox, to help explore […]

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