Few conservation challenges are as unusual as Colombia's hippo problem. The story began in the 1980s when drug kingpin Pablo Escobar imported several exotic animals for his private estate, Hacienda ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hippos that are descendants of the ones introduced by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar are seen in the wild in a lake near the Hacienda ...

Colombian officials have announced what they describe as an "emergency plan" to cull 80 hippos linked to the ones Pablo Escobar first imported into the country in a bid to protect the local ...

Hippo Jakira is pictured eating a cake made out of fruit during the celebration of her 4 year birthday at the Santa Fe zoo, in Medellin, Colombia, on July 15, 2018. Jakira is the daughter of Pepa, who ...

A sign beside a cattle pond in central Colombia warns visitors that the water belongs to the most dangerous animal on earth and that they should stay out of it. The sign is accurate. It also sits ...

Bogotá (AFP) – A baby hippopotamus descended from creatures that belonged to Pablo Escobar died Wednesday after being rescued in northwestern Colombia, an environmental organization told AFP. Colombia ...

As early as 2022, Colombia’s growing hippopotamus population had become a topic of concern. And for good reason: although hippos have not caused a single death in the country, Colombian authorities ...

Indian magnate Anant Ambani, son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has offered to take in at his wildlife sanctuary in India, 80 “cocaine hippos” currently living in Colombia, where the government is ...

PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia — Along the Magdalena River, one of Colombia’s primary arteries, fishermen move with wary precision. From the silty, tea-colored current, hippopotamuses can surface without ...

Colombia is currently between a hippo and a hard place as the region prepares to cull its most notable invasive species. Widely known as “cocaine hippos” due to their original introduction to the ...