Additionally, 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 ...
The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.
Habitat loss and degradation, drought, poaching and the international trade of hippo parts, including their teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat, all threaten this keystone species. The United States ...
A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos ...
An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...
poaching and the international demand for hippo parts, including teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat. Adam Peyman, wildlife programs director for Humane Society International, speaking on behalf of ...