Colombia, the sterilization of Pablo Escobar’s hippos has begun

BOGOTA – The Colombian government has begun to sterilize the hippos of Pablo Escobarconsidered by many experts to be a serious threat to biodiversity. The former king of drug trafficking had illegally imported into the country, in the 1980s, a couple of these pachyderms for his private zoo set up in his vast estate-fortress, the Hacienda Na ‘poles, in Doradal, in the Antioquia department: the animals have reproduced in recent years to reach a population of over 80 specimens, too many according to the authorities, given their devastating impact on the local flora and fauna.