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1. www.nature.com › articles › s41598/023/33028-yRapid population growth and high management costs have ...

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   Apr 16, 2023 · Delaying the start of hippo management efforts for a decade (until the start of 2032) would significantly increase the time and cost associated with population control. The total cost of cost ...

2. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 37062768Rapid population growth and high management costs have ...

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   Apr 16, 2023 · Applying the population control methods currently under consideration will cost at least 1-2 million USD to sufficiently decrease hippo population growth to achieve long-term removal, and depending on the management strategy selected, there may still be hippos on the landscape for 50-100 years.

3. www.scientificamerican.com › article › invasiveInvasive ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Are Being Sterilized in Colombia

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   Nov 13, 2023 · The plan is to capture, anaesthetize and sterilize an initial 20 hippos by the end of 2023 as part of a three-pronged approach the government is taking to reduce the rapidly expanding population ...

4. www.bbc.com › news › world-latin-america-56011594Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia's hippos

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   In 2009, he performed a castration of a male "cocaine hippo" as part of an experiment to study options to control the growing population. "We are talking about an animal that can weigh five tonnes ...

5. apnews.com › article › colombia-hippopotamusesColombia will try to control invasive hippo population ...

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   Nov 3, 2023 · Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, through surgical sterilization, the transfer of hippos to other countries and possibly euthanasia.

6. www.nature.com › articles › d41586/023/01818-zColombia’s ‘cocaine hippo’ population is even bigger than ...

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   Jun 2, 2023 · Colombia’s invasive hippo population is even larger than ... A modelling study published in April 2 estimated that this method could eradicate the hippos in 45 years at a cost of at least US ...

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   How much does hippo population control cost?

   • The cost of controlling hippo population growth is at least 1–2 million USD to sufficiently decrease hippo population growth to achieve long-term removal. Depending on the management strategy selected, there may still be hippos on the landscape for 50–100 years.

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   Is there a hippo problem in Colombia?

   • The introduction of hippos into the wild in Colombia has been marked by rapid population growth and widespread dispersal on the landscape in this region. This has resulted in high financial costs of management and conflicting social perspectives on their management and fate.

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   Is there a strategy to control hippos?

   • “One of the key conclusions is that there is not a single strategy to control the hippos’ population and their environmental impact,” Muhamad told Nature. The first step is the sterilization campaign, for which the government has put aside 808 million pesos (US$200,000) this year.

   Invasive 'Cocaine Hippos' Are Being Sterilized in Colombia

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   Will Colombia control hippopotamuses?

   • More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, through surgical sterilization, the transfer of hippos to other countries and possibly euthanasia.

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   Should Hippo extinction be weighed against native flora and fauna?

   • The cost of killing the hippos must be weighed against that of losing native flora and fauna in Colombia — the second-most biodiverse country in the world — they add. Nature asked the environment ministry how it would manage the growing hippo population, given the new findings, but it did not comment.

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   How do hippos affect the environment?

   • Hippos have the potential for rapid population growth, which has led to their growing population in the Magdalena River basin. They can significantly impact the environment—some effects are already noticeable, and these impacts are likely to intensify in the coming decades (10).

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8. europepmc.org › article › MEDRapid population growth and high management costs have ...

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   Apr 16, 2023 · Rapid population growth and high management costs have created a narrow window for control of introduced hippos in Colombia.