Experts in this case are particularly focused on nutria—an herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal that looks like a cross between a giant rat and a beaver. “Please consider the following slogan ...

SACRAMENTO – It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week and the US Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to know that nutria can be delicious. The large, semi-aquatic rodent is considered an ...

After 20-plus years in the world of fine French dining, chef Phillipe Parola started developing recipes for invasive species, including nutria. Dac Collins The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is ...

Launched during National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the initiative promotes the slogan "Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria" to combat these destructive rodents that have plagued U.S. wetlands for ...

The decision to feature such graphic images on the front page with the article "By Tooth and Tale" on the Venice nutria rodeo is not only in poor taste but also raises serious ethical concerns.

Nutria are "oversized, wetland-loving rodents were brought to the U.S. for the fur trade and now they’re devouring marshlands," the USFW says. What does it taste like? "Their meat is lean ...

According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, this furry rodent is edible. The federal agency posted on X that nutria meat is compared to a rabbit. Dissmore believes trapping the animals is not ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is highlighting an animal that’s causing major erosion to the banks of ditches ...

SHERMAN ISLAND, AS I MENTIONED, IS ONE OF OUR NORTHERNMOST AND NEWER SITES WHERE WE HAVE DETECTED NUTRIA, NUTRIA ARE RODENTS NATIVE TO SOUTH AMERICA, AND THEY’RE CAUSING A HEADACHE FOR CREWS ...

“Sherman Island is one of our northernmost and newer sites where we detected nutria,” said environmental program manager Valerie Cook. About a year and a half ago, crews first found nutria on ...