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 ...

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 ...

April 13 (UPI) --The Government of Colombia said Monday it will cull up to 80 hippos descended from animals illegally introduced by drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in the 1980s as part of a plan to ...

Newswise — Four hours east of Medellín in northern Colombia’s Puerto Triunfo municipality, the sprawling hacienda constructed by infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar of “Narcos” fame has become a tourist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...