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

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 ...

After two years of failed attempts at relocation and sterilization, Colombia’s government has decided it will euthanize 80 of the at least 169 “cocaine hippos” that were once owned by notorious drug ...

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 ...

Colombia’s plan to cull 80 invasive hippos descended from Pablo Escobar’s private zoo has sparked global debate, with Indian billionaire heir Anant Ambani offering to relocate them to his Vantara ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...