ULSAN, South Korea, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ulsan city government is purchasing animals known to disturb local ecosystems – including bass (micropterus salmoides), bullfrogs and nutrias – from residents who capture them, as part of its plans to protect its rivers and streams. The pilot project took off Monday, and those hunting or fishing [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – River rats native to South America, also known as nutria, were first introduced to Korea in the 1980s by fur ranchers. Although officials at the time didn’t expect the animals to survive in the wild in the cold winter weather, the rats showed exceptional adaptability, surviving winters in their [...]
SEOUL, Jan.4 (Korea Bizwire) – Nutrias, which are also called ‘monster rats’, have been identified as the destroyers of ecosystems all over the world, including Korea. Desperate measures are being taken to catch the animals, and currently, cash prizes of 20,000 won per nutria are being offered. In 1987, a very unusual animal that looked [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Yong Hwan-yul, a senior researcher of the Immunology Research Center at Seoul National University, wrote a column about the eradication of nutrias in a local newspaper on September 25. He said, “Catching nutrias alive, suturing their anus and then releasing them to the nature is a good way to [...]