Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos roaming freely through a region in the center of the country, where they threaten villagers and displace native species years ...
Descended from drug lord Pablo Escobar's private zoo, a booming population of feral hippos now roams Colombia. As the government plans a cull, an unlikely savior emerges: an Indian billionaire.
Some of the hippos that roamed the former ranch of late drug lord Pablo Escobar, in northwestern Colombia, were sterilized due in 2021 due to the ‘uncontrolled ...