When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in 1993, having built a billion dollar cocaine empire, he left behind a zoo. While his rhinos, giraffes, elephants and kangaroos were re-housed, the hippos ...
Four of Pablo Escobar's hippos escaped and managed to reproduce to a point they are now a threat to wildlife. Photo: AFP via Getty Images. Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" must be slaughtered to ...
Thirty years after Pablo Escobar's death in 1993 ... to $2 million to "sufficiently decrease hippo population growth to achieve long-term removal." However, this was based on a hippo population ...
In the late '80s, infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar illegally imported a group of hippos for his personal zoo. Today, these hippos are wreaking havoc and are protected by the government.
Through resolution 346 of 2022, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development declared hippos an invasive species. The decision was made on the basis of the results of the evaluation of ...
Hippos float in the lake at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago, in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, ...
The late drug lord, Pablo Escobar, imported four hippos from Africa in the 1980s. The animals have since reproduced and grown significantly in numbers. [Courtesy of Getty Images] Colombia is ...
Bogota The infamous Pablo Escobar, who terrorized Colombia during the 1980s and early 1990s, resulted in thousands of deaths. And in the 1980s, he smuggled four hippos from a wildlife park in ...
Their existence in the country began with the import of four individuals by drug lord Pablo Escobar. The four hippopotamuses later escaped into the wild. In January, biologists and other experts ...
Large-budget films such as "Blow," "Escobar," and "American Made" also graced the big screen. Pablo owned four hippos at the time of his death, by 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16.