Guwahati, May 1 -- By NE NOW NEWS

Guwahati: Anant Ambani, son of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, has renewed an offer to relocate 80 feral hippos in Colombia - descendants of animals once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar to the Vantara private wildlife facility in Gujarat.

The proposal comes as Colombian authorities move towards culling the growing hippo population, which has become a major ecological concern in the South American country.

The hippos were originally brought to Colombia by Escobar during the 1980s for his private zoo at Hacienda Napoles. After his death in 1993, the animals were left unattended and gradually spread across the Magdalena River basin, where their population expanded rapidly due to abundant food and the absenc...