Relocating 70 of Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' to cost around $3.5 million

Pablo Escobar's 'Cocaine Hippos' Are Coming to India at a High Cost of $3.5 Mn

After the African Cheetahs from Namibia, it seems like the deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses, or hippos, will soon be moved to India.  According to a tweet form the governor of Antioquia province, around 60 hippos will be relocated to a facility in India, and a few others to Mexico.  La Fundación Internacional Ostok Sanctuary ha manifestado su interés de traslocar un grupo de 70 hipopótamos de Puerto Triunfo a santuarios naturale…

Pablo Escobar's hippos to be removed - costing 24 million

Colombia now wants to remove Pablo Escobar's hippos, and this could cost them up to 24 million kronor

Colombia faces $3.5M cost to transfer Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’

Colombian officials said they are dealing with about 150 hippos, all descendants of one male and three females the late drug lord smuggled into the country in the 1980s.

Airfare for Pablo Escobar’s hippos has a hefty price tag

The airfare for moving Pablo Escobar’s famed hippos from Colombia has a hefty price tag, according to a sanctuary owner.

Relocating drug lord's 'cocaine hippos' to cost millions

Hippos are seen swimming close to the Magdalena River in Doradal, Colombia in March 2022. | Juancho Torres, Anadolu Agency/Getty Images     (CNN) — Colombia’s plans to relocate 70 “cocaine hippos” descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie will cost approximately $3.5 million, officials said in a press conference Wednesday. It will form part of a deal that the local Antioquia government signed with various institutions incl…

Deporting Pablo Escobar's invasive "cocaine hippos" from Colombia carries a hefty price tag

In the 1980's, the Colombian drug kingpin imported just four hippos from Africa — and now there are nearly 150 of them.