It takes two deminers a day to clear a 200 square-metre (2,150 square-feet) minefield, but if they work with two rats they can sweep it in two hours. "They are very effective. We have very high success rates. So far they have helped re-open almost two million square metres of land" in Mozambique, said Bart Weetjens

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