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Ambani Offers to Relocate 80 Colombian Hippos Amid Culling Plans

4/28/2026

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Anant Ambani pledged to fund and manage a veterinary-led translocation of 80 Colombian hippos to the Vantara Conservation Center in Gujarat.
Colombia plans to cull the hippos and has not responded to Ambani’s relocation request.
The Colombian environment ministry says no other nation agreed to receive the animals, prompting lethal control.
Experts warn the hippo population could reach 500 by 2030, threatening manatees, river turtles and local ecosystems.

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Anant Ambani pledged to fund and manage a veterinary-led translocation of 80 Colombian hippos to the Vantara Conservation Center in Gujarat.
Colombia plans to cull the hippos and has not responded to Ambani’s relocation request.
The Colombian environment ministry says no other nation agreed to receive the animals, prompting lethal control.
Experts warn the hippo population could reach 500 by 2030, threatening manatees, river turtles and local ecosystems.