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Their nonstop munching and burrowing destroy the plants that keep marshes stable, leading to erosion, loss of habitat, and wetlands that look like something out of a disaster movie,” experts said.

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 ...

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 ...

Strolling atop levees at Grizzly Ranch in the Suisun Marsh, south of Fairfield, wildlife biologist Robert Eddings stops in front of a brackish pond. Unlike most of the surrounding wetland, this pond ...

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 ...

There probably isn't an outdoor activity that has fallen under more scrutiny than trapping. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because over the past decade, people in the wildlife management field ...

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 ...