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 ...
An Indigenous-led citizen conservation project in the community of Musuiuiai in Putumayo, Colombia, aims to obtain data on the lowland tapir’s presence and understand the environmental factors ...
Source: Steven Castaño/with permission. The case of the Colombian hippopotamuses is a clear example of "bioxenophobia" (or biological xenophobia, a dislike of invasive, alien species) and bias in ...