Indian billionaire offers to relocate Colombian hippos to India
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Updated · NPR · May 8
Indian billionaire offers to relocate Colombian hippos to India
9 articles · Updated · NPR · May 8
The proposal would move dozens of Pablo Escobar's invasive "cocaine hippos" from Doradal, Colombia, to a wildlife reserve in Gujarat.
It challenges Colombia's plan to cull the animals, which have multiplied in the wild and become a contentious environmental and public-safety issue.
The hippos, descendants of Escobar's private zoo collection, have become an emblematic invasive species case as authorities weigh lethal control against relocation.
With 80 hippos potentially saved, what fate awaits the hundred still threatening Colombia's ecosystem and its people?
Can an Indian billionaire’s controversial zoo solve the ecological crisis created by Pablo Escobar’s invasive hippos?