Audubon Blog: Nutria, an invasive N.J. species, now a furry fashion icon


Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife

What’s trendy this holiday season? Invasive species. On Sunday in New York City, New Orleanians gathered to show off one of their worst—and now, most fashionable—at an event called Nutria Palooza, part of designer Cree McCree’s Righteous Fur campaign. She won a grant from the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program to bring the fur of this semi-aquatic rodent back into vogue, and all the way to Brooklyn.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 12/7/2010 7:00 AM
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: nutria invasive species wildlife fur
 

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