Colombia will transfer 70 hippos once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar to overseas sanctuaries at a cost of $3.5m. The cocaine baron brought a small number of the African beasts to Colombia in the ...
The case of Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is unique. Yet it could be seen as a step in the right direction for invasive species management. Despite the preferred management options being ...
Pablo Escobar became arguably the most powerful man in Colombia with the help of the cocaine trade that made the Medellín Cartel one of the ...
Colombia said on Wednesday it was making progress on the transfer of 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries, but mitigating the havoc caused by this unusual legacy of deceased druglord Pablo Escobar ...
Sterilization, hunting and other schemes have failed to winnow the herd that has grown since drug Pablo Escobar imported the hippos to Colombia 43 years ago. Years after his 1993 death ...
The result is that the hippos end up killing fish and threatening endemic species like manatees, otters and turtles, she said. Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn't know how ...
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 ...
The hippo was a descendent of the four animals that notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar imported from a zoo in the US to his luxurious Hacienda Nápoles estate in Colombia in the 1980s. The four hippos, ...
Colombia said on Wednesday it was making progress on the transfer of 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries, but mitigating the havoc caused by this unusual legacy of deceased druglord Pablo Escobar ...
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 ...
