The animals, which the drug kingpin imported into Colombia, were left to “roam free” and multiply after Escobar was killed in ...

Along the Magdalena River, one of Colombia’s primary arteries, fishermen move with wary precision. From the silty, ...

The hippos, an invasive species in Colombia, are part of a population of 200 that continues to reproduce unchecked.

Anant Ambani, heir to Asia’s richest family, has offered to relocate 80 of Colombia’s invasive 'cocaine hippos' to his Vantara wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, India. The hippos, descendants of animals ...

Notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar illegally imported exotic animals into Colombia in the 1980s to keep on his ranch, ...

The hippos are descended from animals introduced to the country in the 1980s by Pablo Escobar, one of Colombia’s top drug ...

Concerns about their impact on local ecosystems led Colombia's environment minister to announce a divisive plan to cull 80 of ...

Colombia is immersed in a contentious debate over what to do with a rapidly growing population of hippopotamuses descended ...

With the cocaine trade booming in the 1980s, Escobar decided to create a zoo at his Hacienda Nápoles akin to the one at Hearst Castle in California during the first half of the 20th century. The drug ...