{"id":32938,"date":"2023-03-31T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/31\/drug-lord-escobars-hippos-in-3-5m-move-plan\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:38:37","slug":"drug-lord-escobars-hippos-in-3-5m-move-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=32938","title":{"rendered":"Drug lord Escobar&#8217;s hippos in $3.5m move plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Colombia has said a plan to move 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries will cost $3.5 million (\u00a32.8m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, illegally imported exotic animals into the country, including a number of hippos, in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Following his death the hippos roamed free and a growing population, believed to be the biggest herd outside Africa, has been taking over the countryside near his former ranch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Authorities hope to transfer some of the hippos in the coming months, with 10 bound for Mexico and 60 going to India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-65124063?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Colombia has said a plan to move 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries will cost $3.5 million (\u00a32.8m). Drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}