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 ...

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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 federal government is making an unusual pitch: eat swamp rats, iguanas and wild boar to help save American ecosystems. And the concept behind it — called “invasivorism” — has been building ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourages people to eat invasive species to protect native ecosystems. Invasive species like feral hogs, nutria, and various types of carp are causing significant ...

What if the next great meal on your plate came not from a farm or a grocery store, but from a swamp? It might sound outlandish, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is making a serious case ...

Nutrias are more often called “rats,” adorned with such modifiers as “marsh,” “swamp,” or “filthy.” Apart from when it peeks out of a burrow hole or imitates a plant, a nutria is not especially cute.