Invasive species are among the leading causes of extinction worldwide, costing the global economy over $423 billion annu ...

The nutria, also known as a coypu or swamp beaver, is originally from South America. But the semi-aquatic mammal has managed to spread far beyond its native wetlands, infiltrating swamps and ...

Nutria are native to South America, but were first brought to Louisiana in the 1930’s to help meet fur industry demands. By the early 1940’s, hurricane damage to nutria farms accidentally ...

There were at least two other nutria farms in Louisiana: one near Abita Springs and another in St. Bernard, near the Chalmette Battlefield. On June 1, 1940, ...

Urban legend gives Edmund Avery McIlhenny credit with starting a nutria fur farm on Avery Island in 1937. His father created Tabasco, and the family still produces the pepper sauce.

Since 2017, the Nutria Response Team has caught and killed more than 5,000 animals. The rodents reproduce quickly, and as their population grows, eradication gets more difficult.

Nutria, which may grow up to 2 feet long and weigh 20 pounds, ... Solano County Farm Bureau County Manager Lisa Shipley echos King’s concern. “They eat everything, ...

Close to a thousand nutria have been hunted down in California this year alone, and wildlife officials are urging people to share reports of the invasive, 2.5-foot-long rodents in the Bay Area as ...

As the animals’ prestige grew, so did their numbers. Nutria escaped from (and were intentionally released from) fur farms and proliferated enthusiastically in the wild.By the eighties, when the ...

Then one stormy night ten years later, a strong wind blew down the pens on the nutria farm of P.E.T. Carill-Worsley in East Anglia, and some eight animals escaped.

Nutria, hammerhead worms, ... Feral swine in the US today are the same species as pigs found on farms, according to the USDA, and are the descendants of pigs that either escaped or were released.