The US Fish and Wildlife Service has instructed residents of California to eat a certain rodent that has been called a "giant swamp rat" in efforts to protect the state's marshland.

A large invasive rodent capable of destroying up to 9 tons of plant material a year has made its way to Fresno, according to ...

The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States. As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended on Friday ...

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking Americans to do their part for native ecosystems by eating giant, invasive rodents called nutria. “Please consider the following slogan ...

Nutria, an invasive species, has caused erosion and loss of habitat in California and approximately 19 other states Getty A new source of sustenance has been added to the California diet. Wildlife ...

Related: Effort begun to eradicate giant African snails in Florida According to the FWC, the Gun and Light at Night Permit authorizes individuals to legally hunt nutria overnight after notifying ...

In California, wildland managers have been raising concerns over nutria for years – warning that the giant rodent poses not only a threat to natural habitats but also to levees critical to ...

It's the restaurant facing Galveston's seawall that has the giant fiberglass crab on top. Then again, maybe they’ll add nutria gumbo to their menu. Then we’ll really know their “Save a Swamp ...

Ok, so how can we help? Nutria gumbo. Their meat is lean, mild, and tastes like rabbit.” “Because this sharp-toothed facultative air breather can live outside a body of water for several days ...

Some of the invasive species in Mississippi include feral hogs, nutria, snakeheads, and various carp species. Save a swamp. Eat a nutria. FWS even suggests preferred ways to cook the invaders.

Another person was more skeptical. “I'd eat a lot of things but I draw the line at Giant rats,” she wrote on Facebook. Nutria aren’t the only invasive species wildlife agencies have suggested locals ...