The Global Quest to Relocate Colombia’s Invasive Hippos: Challenges and Prospects
Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Anant Ambani’s Vantara sanctuary have initiated high-level discussions this year to potentially relocate dozens of Pablo Escobar’s invasive hippos to India. This proposal seeks to address the growing ecological crisis in the Magdalena River basin, where the population of these animals has swelled from four in the 1980s to an…