Colombia s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development is working to control the population of 169 hippos born from four owned by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.
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When Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was putting together his own private zoo of exotic animals, he had to have some hippos. Now, almost 30 years after Escobar's death, the descendants of his menagerie are wreaking havoc on the Colombian ecosystem.
More than 100 African hippos descended from fewer than a handful imported as exotic pets by drug lord Pablo Escobar, face an uncertain future in Colombia.
After the government on Friday added Escobar’s so-called “cocaine” hippos to a list of “introduced, invasive species,” experts say that killing them might be the only viable option.
From the few individuals once housed at Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles estate, the hippos’ numbers have ballooned, with 130 now roaming free north of Bogota around the Magdalena River.
Officials say the grazing giants, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, threaten local wildlife and humans living along the river, whom they have