Canada's Moose Sex Project offers tax breaks

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is serious about moose sex. And it's offering tax breaks if you choose to help.

Launched in 2013, the Moose Sex Project aims to create a permanent wildlife corridor along the 17-kilometre-wide Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow piece of land connecting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick—as well as encourage a little interprovincial mating.

Nova Scotia's moose population has fallen to around 1,000, after a parasitic infection ripped through the species. However, the New Brunswick moose population sits at a healthy 29,000. 

In an interview with AFP, NCC spokesperson Andrew Holland said, "It'd be nice if some New Brunswick moose go over and make friends in Nova Scotia to boost the gene pool and help the species survive there."

So far, the NCC has secured over 2,060 acres of land for the corridor, which protects swampland, marshes, lakes, and bogs, and will also be used by other local wildlife. 

Any donation of land is eligible for a tax break under Canada's Ecological Gifts Program. The most recent land donation came from Kenneth Lund and his late brother Donald, who provided 83 hectares of land along Route 16.

For more information about the program—or to donate some spare land you have lying around—contact the NCC's Atlantic office at 1-877-231-4400 or email atlantic@natureconservancy.ca.