{"id":41699,"date":"2026-04-15T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-Colombie-prevoit-d-euthanasier-80-hippopotames-herites-de-Pablo-Escobar-41699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:57:16","slug":"La-Colombie-prevoit-d-euthanasier-80-hippopotames-herites-de-Pablo-Escobar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-Colombie-prevoit-d-euthanasier-80-hippopotames-herites-de-Pablo-Escobar\/","title":{"rendered":"La Colombie pr\u00e9voit d\u2019euthanasier 80 hippopotames h\u00e9rit\u00e9s de Pablo Escobar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selon les autorit\u00e9s, cette mesure s\u2019int\u00e8gre dans un programme \u00e9largi de gestion environnementale, dot\u00e9 d\u2019un budget d\u2019environ 7,2 milliards de pesos (pr\u00e8s de 2 millions de dollars), dont la mise en \u0153uvre est pr\u00e9vue au second semestre 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Cette situation exceptionnelle s\u2019explique par l\u2019introduction, dans les ann\u00e9es 1980, de quatre hippopotames par Pablo Escobar dans son zoo priv\u00e9 de l\u2019Hacienda N\u00e1poles, les animaux s\u2019\u00e9tant reproduits de mani\u00e8re incontr\u00f4l\u00e9e apr\u00e8s sa mort en 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Aujourd\u2019hui, leur population est estim\u00e9e \u00e0 environ 160 \u00e0 200 individus, principalement dans la vall\u00e9e du fleuve Magdalena. Sans intervention, elle pourrait atteindre jusqu\u2019\u00e0 1 000 individus d\u2019ici 2035, selon les projections officielles.<\/p>\n<p>Les autorit\u00e9s colombiennes justifient cette d\u00e9cision par les impacts croissants de ces animaux sur les \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes. Les hippopotames contribuent notamment \u00e0 la d\u00e9gradation de la qualit\u00e9 de l\u2019eau, perturbent les habitats naturels et menacent des esp\u00e8ces locales comme les lamantins et les tortues de rivi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p>Par ailleurs, leur pr\u00e9sence constitue un danger pour les populations rurales, des incidents impliquant des attaques ou des rencontres \u00e0 risque ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 signal\u00e9s dans plusieurs r\u00e9gions du centre du pays.<\/p>\n<p>Avant d\u2019opter pour l\u2019euthanasie, le gouvernement avait envisag\u00e9 d\u2019autres solutions, telles que la st\u00e9rilisation ou le transfert des animaux vers des zoos \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger. Cependant, ces options se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9es co\u00fbteuses, complexes ou inefficaces.<\/p>\n<p>Des discussions ont \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 engag\u00e9es avec plusieurs pays pour accueillir une partie des hippopotames, mais aucune autorisation concr\u00e8te n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 obtenue \u00e0 ce jour.<\/p>\n<p>Si de nombreux scientifiques soutiennent cette mesure comme n\u00e9cessaire pour prot\u00e9ger la biodiversit\u00e9, elle suscite aussi de vives critiques de la part des d\u00e9fenseurs des animaux, qui d\u00e9noncent une solution jug\u00e9e radicale.<\/p>\n<p>Malgr\u00e9 ces controverses, la ministre de l\u2019Environnement, Irene V\u00e9lez, affirme que cette d\u00e9cision est indispensable pour pr\u00e9server les \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes du pays et \u00e9viter une crise \u00e9cologique de plus grande ampleur.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-73873 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/hp-2.jpg\" alt=\"La Colombie a annonc\u00e9 un plan in\u00e9dit visant \u00e0 euthanasier environ 80 hippopotames afin de freiner la prolif\u00e9ration de cette esp\u00e8ce devenue invasive et dangereuse\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-73871 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/png\/screenshot_854_.png\" alt=\"Cette situation remonte \u00e0 l\u2019introduction, dans les ann\u00e9es 1980, de quatre hippopotames par Pablo Escobar dans son zoo de l\u2019Hacienda N\u00e1poles, qui se sont reproduits de mani\u00e8re incontr\u00f4l\u00e9e apr\u00e8s sa mort en 1993\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Colombie a annonc\u00e9 un plan in\u00e9dit visant \u00e0 euthanasier environ 80 hippopotames afin de freiner la prolif\u00e9ration de cette esp\u00e8ce devenue invasive et dangereuse pour les populations locales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000073872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[7605],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"contributors":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"featured_image":{"id":4000073872,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_854_.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_854_.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_854_.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_854_.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_854_.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_854_.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000073872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41699"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41699"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}