The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recently marked National Invasive Species Awareness Week with an interesting suggestion: to help protect the environment, bust out the grill. That's right, one way you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not just about adventurous eating. It's part of an effort to protect native animals and ecosystems. FWS even suggests ...

A new source of sustenance has been added to people's diets in certain regions of the U.S. Wildlife agencies are urging locals to eat an invasive rodent wreaking havoc on the surrounding ecosystem in ...

Thumbs up: Eating rodents ain’t your thing? Good news. The James Beard Foundation, which awards the food industry's version of the Oscars, named Gaido's Seafood Restaurant one of its 25 American ...

SACRAMENTO – It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week and the US Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to know that nutria can be delicious. The large, semi-aquatic rodent is considered an ...

They’re large, fast-breeding, invasive and destructive. They’re also, apparently, delicious. Nutria, which may grow up to 2 feet long, weigh 20 pounds, and eat a quarter of their body weight in ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

California’s most-destructive and least-welcome swamp rodents have arrived in its fifth-largest city. To be precise, they’ve arrived in the stretch of San Joaquin River that traces Fresno’s northwest ...