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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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 ...

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, ...

The hippos are descendants of a small herd introduced by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s – Copyright AFP MELL CHUN Colombia will cull some of the 166 hippos ...

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 ...

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 ...