Botswana Pumps Water Into Drying Channels to Aid Stranded Hippos

Gaborone, Botswana — Herds of endangered hippos are stuck in drying ponds in Botswana’s northwest as the El Nino-induced drought takes its toll on wildlife.

In Botswana, home to one of the world’s largest hippopotamus populations, around 500 hippos are stranded as blistering heat dries up water sources, Moemedi Batshabang, director of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, told VOA.

More than 200 of the endangered animals are stranded at the Nxaraga lagoon near the town of Maun in the…