Álvaro Molina has had his run-ins with the burly bunch of neighbors with disreputable contacts who showed up about a decade ago along the river in front of his house in Colombia's Antioquia province. But he's learned to live with them and says he is worried about a government plan he fears could harm them.

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Locals fret as Colombia to declare hippos invasive species

People around the Colombian town of Puerto Triunfo have grown accustomed to living near the herd of hippopotamuses descended from a few that were imported illegally from Africa in the 1980s by flamboyant drug lord Pablo Escobar

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 People around Puerto Triunfo have grown accustomed to the herd of hippopotamuses descended from a few that were imported illegally from Africa in the 1980s by flamboyant drug lord Pablo Escobar, whose former ranch is nearby. Colombia's government plans to sign a document within weeks declaring the hippos an exotic invasive species.

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PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia (AP) — Álvaro Molina has had his run-ins with the burly bunch of neighbors with disreputable contacts who showed up about a decade ago along the river in front of his house in Colombia's Antioquia province. 

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The Colombian government is planning to declare that a herd of hippopotamuses descended from animals imported illegally by drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s are an exotic invasive species.

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Colombian government to declare hippos an invasive species

Descendents of Pablo Escobar's illegal hippos now flourishing in Colombian rivers.

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The animals were illegally imported by drug lord Pablo Escobar in in the 1980s. Since his ranch was abandoned after his death in 1993, the hippos have reproduced in local rivers and began showing up in Puerto Triunfo a decade ago. 

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Colombia: Hippos descended from Pablo Escobar's herd to be declared invasive species

Scientists warn the hippos do not have a natural predator in Colombia and are a potential problem for biodiversity since their feces change the composition of the rivers and could impact the habita…

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Colombia to declare Escobar’s hippos an invasive species

Álvaro Molina has had his run-ins with the burly bunch of neighbors with disreputable contacts who showed up about a decade ago along the river in front of his house in Colombia&#39;s Antioquia province. But he&#39;s learned to live with them and says he is worried about a government plan he fears could harm them.

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Colombia's government plans to sign a document declaring the hippos an exotic invasive species. Among the strategies being debated are castration, sterilization or taking the lives of some hippopotamuses. Funeral arrangements have been announced for one of the eight people killed in last Sunday's plane crash in North Carolina.

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