In the US, a federal court has recognised the hippos as “interested persons” with legal rights. But the case to really watch out for is that of Happy the elephant
For all those who keep up with Pablo Escobar’s “cocaine hippos”, some happy news: a federal US court has recognised them as “interested persons” with legal rights.
The hippos owned by the late Colombian kingpin, and their many descendants, have been the subject of a lawsuit against the Colombian government, which is seeking to kill or sterilise them. From the four hippos illegally imported by Escobar in the 1980s, there are now as many as 80 of them, left to wander from his vast private zoo and posing a growing threat to people and biodiversity.
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