This brown, fuzzy critter with its distinctive orange buck teeth may look cute, but it's causing all sorts of trouble— in Germany, and across Europe.The nutria, also known as a coypu or swamp beaver, ...

Nutria feeding behavior destroys the root mat that cements the marsh together. After this network of fibers has been damaged, these areas are highly susceptible to erosion and can become muddy flats.

Of the 3.6 million nutria harvested between 2002 and 2013, hunters killed the most, nearly 1 million, in Terrebonne Parish. In Plaquemines Parish, hunters collected more than 450,000 nutria tails ...

Nutria, also known as coypu or swamp rats, are large rodents that wreak havoc on their non-native ecosystems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

Nutria, native to South America, were introduced to the US in the late 1800s for their fur. The aquatic rodents have since spread, destroying wetlands and threatening flood infrastructure.

834 nutria have been taken in 2020, and officials believe the increased rate of carnage is attributable to increased staffing, but also the rodent's near-prolific ability to reproduce.

Jamison Trouth unloads invasive nutria from his team's take to be counted and weighed during the Nutria Rodeo in Venice on Feb. 27, 2021. Staff photo by Sophia Germer ...

Nutria are native to South America, but over the past century or so, they have traveled around the globe. In some places, they’re better known as coypu, from the Spanish word coipú.

Nutria, which eat plants and grasses in marshlands, have destroyed hundreds of acres of vegetation along the shorelines of the Delmarva Peninsula. (USDA APHIS Wildlife Services) ...

Avoid nutria Armstrong said she doesn’t often hear about nutria attacks on pets, but it can happen if people and/or their dogs are in the rodent’s territory.

In 1970, a decent nutria pelt brought about $4, almost three times the newly increased minimum hourly wage of $1.45. This was great money, if not altogether easily made — skinning, fleshing and ...