Ambani has made the appeal in a letter to Irene Vélez Torres, Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, offering “a fully resourced humane alternative under the direction and approval of Colombian authorities at every stage.” (Special arrangement photo) Anant Ambani, Executive Director at Reliance Industries Ltd and founder of Vantara, has written to the government of Colombia to translocate the 80 hippopotamuses slated for culling — as part of a population reduction plan — to Vantara, the rescue and conservation centre at Jamnagar . Ambani has made the appeal in a letter to Irene Vélez Torres, Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, offering “a fully resourced humane alternative under the direction and approval of Colombian authorities at every stage.” On April 13, Colombia’s environment ministry announced the plan and a budget of 7.2 billion pesos (nearly Rs 18.5 crore) for the “management of the species.” According to the website of Colombia’s environment…