The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...

SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — The invasive rodents known as nutria, spurred by California’s wet winter, have been spotted on Sherman Island in Sacramento County. California Fish and Wildlife was ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

Back in 1899, a harmful rodent called nutria was introduced to the U.S. through the fur trade. Since then, they have damaged vegetation and crops, destroyed the banks of ditches and lakes, and caused ...

A nutria is a large, semi-aquatic rodent native that is approximately 2 feet long. Its features include a large head, short legs, and a stout body that appears hump-backed on land. Their fur is ...

Nutria is on the menu. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recently marked National Invasive Species Awareness Week with an interesting suggestion: to help protect the environment, bust out the grill.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a law giving California a potential boost in federal funding for its campaign to eradicate a giant swamp rodent that has made its way into Central Valley ...

Neuty, the rescue nutria, is Louisiana’s most famous swamp rat. Probably the most famous swamp rat in the world for that matter. Like so many celebrities, Neuty occasionally suspends swimming in the ...

Keeping up with Neuty, Louisiana’s most famous swamp rat, can be a fulltime job. The watery rescue rodent, who was once famously threatened with seizure by the Wildlife and Fisheries Department, is ...

Neuty, the beloved Bucktown nutria, has been chosen to ride as Parade Marshal, in the Argus parade on Mardi Gras morning in Metairie. The celebrity swamp rat will also preside over the Mardi Paws dog ...