Cambodia Facts

Angelina Jolie bought 60,000 hectares of poacher-ravaged land in Cambodia, turned it into a wildlife reserve named after her son - and then hired the poachers themselves as its rangers. The people who were destroying the land are now the ones protecting it.

Ronin is an African giant pouched rat, roughly the size of a small cat. Belgian charity APOPO trained him to sniff out landmines in Cambodia. From 2021 to 2025, he found 109 landmines and 15 other unexploded devices there. That broke the Guinness World Record set by his predecessor Magawa. A rat clears a tennis-court area in 30 minutes. A human deminer takes up to four days.