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Hero Rat Wins A Top Animal Award For Sniffing Out Land Mines

Posted on by PAHS Staff
05
Oct

Read About Magawa, A Hero Rat!

Magawa, a rat who has been trained to detect explosives, was awarded the British PDSA Gold Medal on Friday, September 25, for bravery in searching out unexploded land mines in Cambodia.

Hero Rat Wins A Top Animal Award For Sniffing Out Land Mines

In the last four years, the rat named Magawa has helped to clear over 1.5 million square feet of land. The animal has detected dozens of land mines in Cambodia and is believed to have saved lives.

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The Palo Alto Humane Society is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit, charitable, volunteer-supported organization. PAHS is one of the few humane societies nationwide with no animal shelter. Instead of managing animals inside a shelter, we work to keep animals out of the shelter through humane programs in intervention, advocacy, and education. For a century, our mission has been to alleviate the suffering of animals, increase public sensitivity to animal issues, and elevate the status of animals in our society.