Soup is one of the oldest comfort foods known to humans. However, this particular ancient soup used a meat ingredient you may not find today. Here's why.

The suspects were found in possession of hippo meat. Records of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) show that between 2004 and 2014 Hong Kong ...

The park notes that hippos are often illegally poached "for their meat by armed groups and those in absolute poverty and for the ivory found in their teeth." ...

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 ...

and the international demand for hippo parts, including teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat. “This is an important first step towards saving hippos by providing the protections they so badly need ...