APOPO News

A quarter of a century ago today, the Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding anti-personnel landmines, (also known as the Ottawa Treaty) was drafted and offered to all nations for signing. Today, the treaty has 164 signatories, representing 80% of the world’s governments, making it one of the world’s most widely accepted international agreements. No new countries […]

Between November 18-26, the Cambodia program hosted a visit from APOPO CEO, Christophe Cox, from operational headquarters in Tanzania and a senior team from the Marketing department. The visit included the visiting all field sites including landmine detection rat clearance operations, the cluster munition survey dog operations and the dog training center. It also included

We’re excited to share some news! APOPO has been evaluated by Charity Navigator, the world’s largest and most trusted nonprofit evaluator, and earned a Four-Star Rating! This is the highest possible rating on Charity Navigator! Charity Navigator’s third-party accreditation validates our organization’s operational excellence. A four-star rating is given to organizations who score a 90

Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) and APOPO sign a new agreement for 2023. APOPO’s recently appointed Cambodia Program Manager, Michael Raine and CMAC Director-General, H.E. Heng Ratana, signed a new agreement for the continuation of APOPO’s animal detection teams working in cooperation with CMAC operations in Cambodia in 2023. This event took place in the

We’re thrilled to announce that APOPO organized the first-ever course in Syntropic Farming in Ethiopia following on the success of APOPO’s pilot training in Tanzania. This initiative is part of APOPO’s HeroTREEs project. The course was a combination of theory classes and practical experience with mostly hands-on experience under the guidance of Permaculture and Syntropic

This year, the prestigious Christoffel Plantin Prize, went to Christophe Cox, APOPO’s CEO. The Christoffel Plantin Prize is an annual prize awarded to a Belgian who contributes to the prestige of Belgium abroad. Members of the Christoffel Plantin Fund chose Christophe, as Laureate this year in the category of Social Entrepreneurship. The Prize was created

On October 21, 2022, APOPO’s Mine Risk Education team in Angola held a session on explosive hazards with the Clube Recreativo Desportivo do Libolo, an Angolan football (soccer) club based in Libolo, Cuanza Sul Province. The football team lives in a building complex of about 200 homes, which is only 5 meters from the “Mangueiras

APOPO, famed for its use of specially trained rats in landmine and tuberculosis detection celebrates its 25th birthday this month! Harnessing the highly attuned sense of smell in the African giant pouched rat, APOPO has spent the last 25 years training these affectionate rodents in detecting two of the deadliest threats on the planet: landmines

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report 2022 is out! The report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, at global, regional and country levels. Unfortunately, the newest data reflects the lingering repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing