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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 10:24 PM Dec 2012

The Moose Sex Project

(Toronto Star) The Nature Conservancy of Canada wants you to help moose in the Maritimes get it on.

The environmental group is looking for $35,000 for its Moose Sex Project: a plan to buy 100 hectares on the narrow strip of land that connects New Brunswick, where moose are aplenty, to Nova Scotia, where they’re endangered on that province’s mainland.

The New Brunswick moose could help change that — as long as they can reach their dwindling neighbours to the east.

“In New Brunswick, the moose populations are quite healthy. However, the same can’t be said in Nova Scotia,” said NCC Atlantic spokesman Andrew Holland. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1305967--moose-sex-project-conservationists-play-matchmaker-in-the-maritimes



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