India, April 29 -- Anant Ambani has offered to save the 80 "cocaine hippos" that the Colombian government wants to cull. The younger son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday asked the Colombian government to reconsider its plan to kill the animals, offering to have them rehabilitated at Vantara.

Vantara is a wildlife rescue, treatment, and rehabilitation centre spread over 3,500 acres in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Established by the Reliance Foundation, it is believed to be the passion project of Anant Ambani.

"These 80 hippos did not choose where to be born, nor did they create the circumstances they now face," Anant Ambani said in a social media post on Tuesday. "They are living, sentient beings, and if we have the capacit...