PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia — Along the Magdalena River, one of Colombia’s primary arteries, fishermen move with wary precision. From the silty, tea-colored current, hippopotamuses can surface without ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.