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 ...
HACIENDA NÁPOLES, Colombia—Castrating hippos wasn’t part of Cristina Buitrago’s veterinary training, especially since the natural habitat of the semiaquatic beasts is roughly 7,000 miles away.
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 ...
this legacy of the late drug baron Pablo Escobar, is increasingly posing a problem, and one that experts think may soon turn deadly. Several months ago, one of hippos burst into a school yard in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Large-budget films such as 2001's 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.
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 ...
this legacy of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, is increasingly posing a problem, and one that experts think may soon turn deadly. Recently, one of the so-called "cocaine hippos" burst into a ...
However, in a town close to the city of Medellin, this legacy of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, is increasingly posing a problem, and one that experts think may soon turn deadly. Recently, one of ...
