Indian billionaire heir offers to save 80 of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ from Colombian cull

Hefty brand condoms jfc

They just tie a knot in it.

I've always said, if you can put a condom on it, it is a sex toy. For other elephants/hippos you pervs.

[Ever see the videos of hippos eating pumpkins and watermelons?](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LX3BpoAZAvc) Imagine how a human head would hold up to those jaws?

That's pretty fuckin rad

They are not the only ones, similar concerns have been raised from many parties across the world. While the facility itself is probably well run, they have the money to obviously, the concerns are more around how they acquire animals and whether those animals actually needed rescue in the first place. If you're buying from breeder farms, you're just stimulating their existence ensuring more animals are brought up in captive conditions in the long run. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/south-african-organisation-raises-concern-on-large-exports-of-wildlife-to-vantara https://timeslife.com/life-hacks/animal-welfare-or-corporate-greed-the-truth-behind-ambanis-vantara/articleshow/118973552.html https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/south-africa-investigation-vantara-ambani-zoo-b2712860.html

It absolutely does though? The middle class in China (and average gdp in other areas) has absolutely exploded and there's been a huge uptick in demand stemming from that.

True, that’s more credit than I’m willing to give too lol… but I could have been more clear, my point was meant to be that I didn’t want to dismiss someone doing good because they were born into wealth

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Hell wasn’t he behind literally killing people to put down strikes? Maybe it was Rockefeller though…Getting others to but still. That said I’d give an awful lot to have either one of those guys back and doing good from their guilty conscience or whatever versus musk and bezos et al

I mean tbf I’m not the biggest fan of billionaires but the Ambani family do run Vantara, which is a massive animal sanctuary that has already rescued hundreds of other animals and has amenities like a spa for senior elephants so he does appear to be versed in relocation of large animals.

I’m genuinely not trying to be rude but are you a bot, a troll, or do you have literacy challenges that make it difficult to read the article in its entirety? The specific passage relevant to your ire: “In the city of Jamnagar, in the state of Gujarat, Ambani [the billionaire this article is about] founded the conservation center Vantara, which houses more than 150,000 animals from over 2,000 wildlife species, according to its official website.” He’s literally a conservationist. I’m genuinely not trying to be rude I just don’t understand why you didn’t just keep reading.

It makes sense. By my calculation 15m works out to about 0.00125% of their net profits for that year (or, 0.00016% of their gross earnings). If you earned 50k per year before tax, that would be like you throwing 8 bucks into the basket. Considering the free positive publicity it brought them, and the substantial tax write-offs on large donations, it truly doesn’t deserve fanfare. If they’d donated it anonymously? No issue. But they never would. It’s good that people are cynical of massive corporations. We should always be so.

As Dr. Jane Goodall said, “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Right after this article I saw another article on here about a Canadian man named Clint Gottinger who used his tow truck to rescue a young moose who was trapped and dying in the ice. He and his wife saved that animal’s life. You don’t have to be the Indian billionaire with a private conservation reserve. You can also be the Canadian tow truck driver with a strong moral compass.