Colombian officials have approved a controversial plan to cull up to 80 hippos that have been roaming freely in the country, posing threats to local communities and wildlife. The hippos are ...

Yamit Diaz is a Colombian fisherman with a peculiar side business. Every three or four days, he takes visitors on boat “safaris” along the Magdalena River, where they can observe some of the ...

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 ...

The 80 hippos impacted by the plan are descendants of the four originally brought to the country in the 1980s by Escobar as he built a private zoo.