Progress Seen In Effort To Eradicate Nutria Rodent From California

SACRAMENTO (AP) – More than 400 nutria have been captured in the first year of an effort to eradicate the invasive South American rodent from California.
Coypu, Nutria or River rat (Myocastor coypus), Myocastoridae. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Monday the semi-aquatic rodents were trapped in five counties in the San Joaquin Valley.
Nutria are an agricultural pest, destroy wetlands critical to native wildlife and threaten water delivery a