Louisiana’s wetlands face escalating destruction from invasive nutria, prompting intensified control measures, including ...

Invasive species, such as nutria, Asian tiger mosquitos, and wild boars, are causing significant harm to Louisiana’s ...

Alex Houchin lifts a container from his team, the Rat Racers, boat full of nutria to be weighed at the Nutria Rodeo at the Venice Marina on Saturday, February 8, 2025 in Venice, Louisiana.

As Louisiana's statewide election slated for Saturday hit the campaign home stretch, one state senator used the likeness of an unlikely hero for the trail: a nutria rat. Earlier this year ...

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Louisiana’s Coastwide Nutria Control Program pays a $6 bounty per tail. Cedric Angeles. Manuel says nutria-damage estimates were at more than 102,000 acres when the program began. Since the ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in a statement Friday, said Myra and Denny Lacoste are being allowed to apply for a permit so they can legally keep Neuty the Nutria in their ...

A Louisiana couple has run afoul of state law by keeping a 22-pound nutria, a rodent commonly considered a wetlands-damaging pest, as a pet that frolics with their dog, snuggles in their arms and s… ...

METAIRIE, La. — The Lacoste family said they are, "beyond devastated," after state authorities arrived at their Metairie business Thursday night to take away their 22-pound pet nutria. The 2 ...

At the Venice nutria rodeo, participant Jason Gibson, said, 'We’re doing Louisiana justice by doing this … just going out and killing ’em.' ...

Denny Lacoste holds a rescued baby nutria in Metairie, La. Monday, March 13, 2023. Denny and Myra Lacoste have run afoul of state law by keeping a 22-pound nutria -- a beady-eyed, orange-toothed ...