When the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, many of the animals he had imported as pets — zebras, giraffes, kangaroos and rhinoceroses — died or have been transferred to zoos. However not his 4 hippopotamuses. They thrived. Maybe a little bit too effectively. Officers estimate that about 170 hippos, descended from…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Rising use, low manufacturing prices and logistical benefits might ultimately lead drug producers to deal with fentanyl as a substitute of cocaine, a high-ranking Colombian police official mentioned, however for now cocaine stays that nation’s prime drug export. Rocketing consumption of artificial drug fentanyl within the U.S. has…
Colombia has begun a brand new marketing campaign sterilizing its invasive hippos, exhibiting indicators that it’s taking the risk the animals pose to the nation’s biodiversity and native communities severely. The plan is to seize, anaesthetize and sterilize an preliminary 20 hippos by the tip of 2023 as a part of a three-pronged strategy the…
