Colombia’s invasive hippos, descended from animals once kept by Pablo Escobar, continue to raise difficult questions about ...

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 ...

In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to... Colombia's rogue hippos could find refuge in India ...

Colombia will euthanize dozens of invasive hippos descended from animals once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar, in a controversial move underscoring the growing environmental and public safety risks ...

Social media conversations about invasive species are driven more by charismatic animals, emotional appeal and celebrity influencers than ecological urgency, an international team of researchers has ...

PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia (AP) — Along the Magdalena River, one of Colombia’s primary arteries, fishermen move with wary precision. From the silty, tea-colored current, hippopotamuses can surface ...

Colombia is taking aim at its invasive hippopotamus population. This week, the government announced plans to euthanize dozens of the hulking animals, which are causing ecological and safety issues in ...

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 ...