Once part of Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie, a small group of hippos has grown into a large wild population roaming parts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. close up shot of hippo's eye in water© Elena Boshkovska/Shutterstock.com The post The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s Infamous ...

The animals, which the drug kingpin imported into Colombia, were left to “roam free” and multiply after Escobar was killed in 1993. Now the “feral” pack has become “such an environmental blight, they ...

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 ...

Scientists warn that a rapidly growing population of hippopotamuses that were introduced to Colombia decades ago by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar should be culled to preserve the local ecosystem, ...

WHEN night falls in the small Colombian village of Doradal, the quiet is broken by the wet, heavy thuds of the town's 1,360kg ...

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 ...

People around Puerto Triunfo have grown accustomed to the herd of hippopotamuses descended from a few that were imported illegally from Africa in the 1980s by flamboyant drug lord Pablo Escobar.

It's estimated that invasive species cost humans around $423 billion dollars each year but sometimes invasive species cost ...

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 ...

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 ...