First they came for Louisiana’s marshes. Now they may be coming for its swamps. Nutria, an invasive, orange-toothed rodent blamed for eating through several hundred acres of Louisiana marsh each year, ...

Hunters are being paid $5 per nutria to eliminate the voracious wetland grass eaters along Louisiana's coast, through a $1.7 million federal-state program. Nutria damage Nutria, an invasive species ...

After much public outcry, state officials now say they will let a Louisiana couple keep a 22-pound nutria -- a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered a wetlands-damaging ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana couple has run afoul of state law by keeping a 22-pound nutria — a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered a wetlands-damaging pest — as a pet ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) is encouraging Americans to hunt and eat five invasive animal species. An article on the USFWS website supported the agency’s efforts to control the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After much public ...