Deepening restrictions on ivory trafficking have led to an increase of the trade in hippopotamus teeth, wildlife campaigners are warning, with potentially serious effects for a species already ...

The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year ...

hippos are poached for their meat and ivory (found in their teeth), further impacting their populations. Currently, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the hippo as ...

There are just an estimated 2,000 that remain in the world, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast, due ...

The United States is one of 184 member states party to the agreement. Such products include hippo teeth, skins, feet, skulls, ivory, meat and other body parts. According to an undercover investigation ...

Did you know the word "hippopotamus" comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse"? But don't let that fool you; this big, lumbering mammal is anything but a horse. In fact, it's one of the most ...

Thai pygmy hippo Moo Deng may soon have to share the limelight with ... Pygmy hippos are native to West Africa – namely in ...

The playful and pudgy mammal that went viral from its Thai zoo enclosure has a sad story to tell about her fellow hippos.

With only as few as 115,000 adult hippos remaining in the wild in Africa today and increasing and unabating threats from habitat loss and degradation, poaching and trade in hippo parts — teeth, skulls ...

Hippos are threatened by habitat loss and degradation, drought, poaching and the international demand for hippo parts, including teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat. Adam Peyman, wildlife programs ...

You don't have to go to Thailand to see pygmy hippos. Mama Cleo, papa Ino, and their son Ptolemy are an adorable family ...