Why Canada is Hoping for a Moose Love-Connection

By Melissa Locker, TIME

Credit: Hagerty Ryan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Why Canada is Hoping for a Moose Love-Connection

December 26, 2012 Updated Dec 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM PDT

Move over, OK Cupid. Scram, eHarmony. The Nature Conservancy of Canada is hoping to make their moose population fall in love the old-fashioned way — with a land deal.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada recently launched a new initiative to boost moose populations in Nova Scotia — where the large mammals have been listed as endangered since 2003 — by creating a preservation corridor along the narrow isthmus that connects the province to New Brunswick.

According to the CBC, the new program — aptly, if somewhat bluntly, named “The Moose Sex Project”– hopes to raise $35,000 to buy up and protect land along the Chignecto Isthmus, allowing New Brunswick’s healthy moose population to cross over to Nova Scotia and find mates.

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