When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in 1993, having built a billion dollar cocaine empire, he left behind a zoo. While his rhinos, giraffes, elephants and kangaroos were re-housed, the hippos ...
Four of Pablo Escobar's hippos escaped and managed to reproduce to a point they are now a threat to wildlife. Photo: AFP via Getty Images. Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" must be slaughtered to ...
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 ...
In the late '80s, infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar illegally imported a group of hippos for his personal zoo. Today, these hippos are wreaking havoc and are protected by the government.
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 ...
Colombian authorities have decided to deport at least 70 of Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" to zoos in other countries. Today, roughly 140 hippos live in the area. Some scientists estimate their ...
Escobar’s menagerie originally housed only four hippopotamuses. However, experts now estimate that this number has risen to between 181 and 215 – around double the 98 individuals estimated in ...
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 ...
A drugs king who spent decades in a federal lock-up for flooding the US with cocaine is revealing that he was turned in by his closest ally: Pablo Escobar. Carlos Lehder went from New York street ...
Their existence in the country began with the import of four individuals by drug lord Pablo Escobar. The four hippopotamuses later escaped into the wild. In January, biologists and other experts ...
Colombian authorities Monday demolished legendary drug lord Pablo Escobar's House-Museum in Medellín ... for example growing exotic fauna, such as hippos. Wednesday's death at a US prison ...