Yet another deadly legacy by Escobar.
We have been reporting here on TGP about the ongoing ecological disaster involving escaped hippopotamuses in the South American rivers of Colombia, and the response by the authorities.
You can read about it inCOCAINE HIPPOS: Brought Into Colombia by Drug Lord Pablo Escobar 40 Years Ago, the ‘Invasive Species’ Is Breeding Out of Control and Has Started Attacking People.
While a plan is being put in place to cull these dangerous, invading beasts wreaking havoc in the local ecosystem, they may be about to be saved.
From four to nearly 200, Colombia’s “cocaine hippos” have been damaging the ecosystem of the Magdalena River for over four decades.https://t.co/vDLlNcgzDJ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY)April 25, 2026
“An Indian billionaire’s son has offered to provide a new home for the feral hippos introduced to Colombia by Pablo Escobar, the late drug lord.
Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Asia’s richest man, has told the Colombian government to reverse its decision to cull 80 of the animals that have been wreaking havoc on rivers in the country.‘These 80 hippos did not choose where they were born, nor did they create the circumstances they now face’, Mr. Ambani said.”
An Indian billionaire’s son offered on Tuesday to take hippos descended from those introduced to Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, rather than have the animals killed.https://t.co/gZo3xOYk7R
Colombian officials have approved the plan to kill (or ‘cull’) the 80 animals, since the government ‘had exhausted all other options to control their numbers’.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
