US EditionUpdate: Billionaire Proposes Lifeline To Save Escobar’s Hippos In Colombia
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Today, around 200 wild hippopotamuses from the former private zoo of the drug boss Pablo Escobar live in Colombia – and their number continues to grow. The government is considering killings while animal rights activists run storms.
Colombia's hippo population, linked to former drug lord Pablo Escobar, may not be cull as the government in Bogota intends. The son of Indian billionaire Anant Ambani has offered Colombian authorities to have the animals transferred to a zoo his family founded in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
The ecological crisis of the hippos in Colombia, an involuntary legacy of the rise of drug trafficking in the 1980s, reached an international turning point following the recent decision of the Ministry of Environment of Colombia to authorize the euthanasia of 80 specimens to slow the growth of this invasive species. In the midst of this announcement, an alternative emerged from the Asian continent.
Update: Billionaire Proposes Lifeline To Save Escobar’s Hippos In Colombia
Update: 5/4/26 In a surprising development, a new proposal may offer an alternative to the planned culling of dozens of hippos descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s former private zoo in Colombia. Anant Ambani, son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has come forward with an offer to relocate approximately 80 of the animals to his sanctuary, Vantara, an expansive wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center in India. The proposal comes at…
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