Faced with a mounting invasive species problem, officials in California decided to call in the big dogs … literally. KCRA reported in March on the Department of Fish and Wildlife's all-out effort to ...

HOUSTON — A new campaign is encouraging Americans to consider an unusual solution to invasive species control: eating them. Launched during National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the initiative ...

An ecological crisis is unfolding across the United States as invasive species inflict catastrophic damage on native ecosystems and agricultural lands. The financial toll has reached $120 billion ...

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 ...

We have received text from H.R. 776: Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025. This bill was received on 2025-01-28, and currently has 3 cosponsors. Here is a short summary of the ...

You heard it right. That rodent is called *** nutria. Some refer it as *** water rat. The large semi-aquatic rodents are considered an invasive species, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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, ...

California’s most-destructive and least-welcome swamp rodents have arrived in its fifth-largest city. To be precise, they’ve arrived in the stretch of San Joaquin River that traces Fresno’s northwest ...

They’re large, fast-breeding, invasive and destructive. They’re also, apparently, delicious. Nutria, which may grow up to 2 feet long, weigh 20 pounds, and eat a quarter of their body weight in ...