"Eating invasive species can help protect native animals and plants." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chef poses with a giant nutria in front of a large barbecue grill. (Dac Collins) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively ...

DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — “Save a swamp, Sauté a Nutria.” Wildlife officials are proposing a special way of dealing with an invasive species wreaking havoc on Florida’s natural reserves. The nutria, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Heathcock retrieves a nutria; swamp rats feed ­heavily on the root systems of marsh grass. I CAN’T HELP but be transported ...

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

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, ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species -- eat them. Last month, the federal agency posted an article about "5 Invasive Species You Can Hunt, ...

No nutria is good news … at least in Southern Illinois. The nutria is a large South American rodent, ranging in size from 8.8-20 points. The nutria was introduced to the United States in the 1940s to ...

SALEM, Ore. (KEZI) — For National Invasive Species Awareness Week, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials are letting folks know that nutria, a large invasive rodent visually similar to beavers, are edible.