Move over Cocaine Bear, we have a new cocaine animal in town. As of late Colombian residents are voicing their concerns over the expanding population of invasive hippos, commonly referred to as ...

Colombia has said a plan to move 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries will cost $3.5 million (£2.8m). Drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, illegally imported exotic animals ...

Decades after Pablo Escobar brought hippos to Colombia, country now dealing with dozens of them Colombia is proposing sending some of its growing hippopotamus population to India and Mexico. Four ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hippopotamuses are increasing in Colombia despite being an alien species in South America. Their existence in the country began with the import of four individuals by drug lord Pablo Escobar.

They became part of his 2,000-hectare Hacienda Napoles ranch in Puerto Triunfo, which comprised a Spanish colonial house, a landing strip, many artificial lakes The legacy of Colombian drugs lord ...

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Escobar's Hacienda Napoles — and the hippos — have become a sort of local tourist attraction in the years since the kingpin was killed by police in 1993. Jaylon Jackson and Hamze El-Zayat both ...

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Colombia has said a plan to move 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries will cost $3.5 million (£2.8m). Drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, illegally imported exotic animals ...