However, some scientists have argued they may actually be “restoring ecological functions” lost for thousands of years due to “human-driven extinctions.” What the ruling does it mean? In May 2020, a hippo attack left a 45-year-old man seriously injured. Hippos also pose a threat to agriculture and to the security of people in affected areas, according to the Biological Conservation study. In the years that followed, the hippos escaped the property, relocated to the Magdalena River, and reproduced at a rate that some ecologists consider to be unsustainable, now numbering 80 individuals or more. It is difficult to know why the hippos stayed on Escobar’s property after his death in 1993. Hacienda Nápoles, the former property of Pablo Escobar, passed into the hands of the state in 1990 and was opened as a private zoo. Hippos swim in one of the lakes of the park 'Hacienda Napoles' The hippos are yet more victims of Pablo Escobar, he adds. In the 1980s, Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar purchased four hippos - known as “cocaine hippos” - for his private zoo at his hacienda near Medellín, ColombiaĪfter Escobar’s death in a 1993 shootout with authorities, the Colombian government left the hippos on his property because they were too difficult to capture and transport to a suitable environment. Richard Berlinski, will now be used to bolster support for the PZP contraceptive to prevent the hippopotamuses who live in the Magdalena River from continuing to grow the population without slaughtering them. The testimony of Animal Balance’s wildlife experts, Dr. The Animal Legal Defense Fund reasoned that since the hippos are plaintiffs in the Colombian litigation, they qualify as 'interested persons' under this statute.'

Supreme Court has said that someone who is a party to the foreign case 'no doubt' qualifies as an 'interested person' under this statute. in support of their foreign case,' a statement from the ALDF read. statute allows anyone who is an 'interested person' in a foreign litigation to request permission from a federal court to take depositions in the U.S. In Colombia, non-human animals do have the right to bring lawsuits that protect their interests, but someone in the US cannot be compelled to present documents to support it.įederal magistrate judge Karen Litkovitz in Cincinnati granted the request on 15 October, meaning the District Court legally recognised non-human creatures as people for the first time in US history. Recently, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), an animal advocacy organisation in the United States, filed a legal application in an attempt to depose two wildlife experts based out of Ohio with expertise on nonsurgical sterilisation to testify on behalf of the hippos. Hippo lady Vanessa, the only hippo that has a pond tamed at the 'Hacienda Napoles', approaches tourists

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