About 80 of the "cocaine hippos" are to be killed to control the animals, according to Colombian officials.
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The scores of wild hippos are descendants of four imported into the country by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s for his private zoo.
Colombia is the only country outside of Africa with a wild hippo population. They are descended from the private zoo of famous gangster Pablo Escobar.
Colombia is the only country outside of Africa with a wild hippo population ...
Introduced by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, the hippos are a tourist attraction but a headache for authorities and locals.
The hippos are the descendants of four brought to the country in the 1980s by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar as he built a private zoo.
Dozens of feral pachyderms linked to drug kingpin to be killed because of threat to native species and villagers ...
Colombian officials have authorized a controversial plan to cull dozens of hippos roaming freely around one of the country's most fertile areas, threatening villagers and displacing local species ...
Katerine Avella is a former combatant in Colombia's decades-long civil war, a peace signatory and a community leader. After the guns fell silent, she created the fashion brand Ixora but, with violence returning to the region, Ms. Avella is now ...
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