Colombia moves to euthanize invasive hippo population

Colombia is moving ahead with its plan to sterilize and transfer its invasive hippo population. There’s about 169 hippos in Colombia and the plan would see about 60 of them transferred to Mexico, the Phillippines, and India. The World’s Carolyn Beeler spoke with Maria Angela Echeverry, a Colombian biologist, about where the hippos came from and why their sterilization and transfer is deemed necessary. 

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