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B.C.’s Conservation Officer Service launched a wildlife-harassment probe Tuesday, after viewing an online video showing a high-speed moose chase.

A concerned B.C. outdoorsman posted the video to his YouTube channel Tuesday, hoping to bring attention to what he described as “moose harassment.”

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The video appears to show an ATV driver chasing a galloping moose at high speed along a service road through the forest in B.C.’s southern Interior for about two minutes, before eventually passing the animal.

The clip appears to have been uploaded to YouTube last year, but on Tuesday, it caught the attention of concerned B.C. hunters, who then shared it with conservation officers.

Dave Webster, a conservation officer in Grand Forks, saw the video Tuesday, and said: “As far as I’m concerned, it is clearcut, 100-per-cent harassment of wildlife.

“It’s a classic example of harassing an animal with a motor vehicle,” he said. “What we would encourage the public to do, and what we believe most rational people would have done, is you pull over, turn off your machine, and let the animal recover and get off the road.”

Officers have identified two suspects they would soon contact, Webster said.

The hunter who shared the clip with the Vancouver Province, who asked to be identified only as Steve, said it immediately reminded him of another video he saw this year and brought to a wider audience via his YouTube channel: the one depicting the so-called “moose rider.”

The “moose-rider” clip, showing a man jumping off a boat onto a swimming moose’s back in B.C., was posted by Steve to his YouTube channel Wolftracker TV in June.