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Anant Ambani offers home to Escobar hippos facing cull in Colombia

The Colombian government has authorized plans to cull up to 80 free-roaming hippopotamuses that scientists say are threatening local communities and ecosystems [FILE PHOTO: February 16, 2022] Image: Fernando Vergara/AP Photo/picture alliance

Anant Ambani on Tuesday offered to relocate hippopotamuses descended from those once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar to prevent their planned cull in Colombia .

Earlier this month, the Colombian government authorized plans to cull up to 80 free-roaming hippopotamuses that scientists say are threatening local communities and ecosystems.

Ambani, the son of billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani, said he had formally…