What do you do when pests threaten your immediate environment, destroying foliage and turning beautiful natural habitats into wastelands? Why, you eat them of course. Wait, what? Yup, that's what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your California cousins may soon be hitting you up for nutria recipes. Already a huge problem for Louisiana's wetlands, the invasive rodents are now causing alarm in the Golden State. Last month, ...

But there is no market for nutria fur or meat, Kendrot said, as places like Louisiana learned when they tried to start up a commercial nutria meat market. Production costs would be high and Wildlife ...

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, lakes, and ...

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, ...

BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. -- Trapper Dean Hopkins noses his boat along the riverbank and cuts the motor. There's a cage nestled in the tall, yellow grass. Hopkins grabs it and swings it ...