--- title: Canada's Suspected YouTube 'Moose Riders' Charged description: A viral video video last year showed a man hounding a moose, prompting an outcry. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Amanda Calvo](https://time.com/author/amanda-calvo/) ## Amanda Calvo Jul 1, 2016 2:57 AM UTC  Moose Bull in Springtime (Photo by: myLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Moose Bull in Springtime (Photo by: myLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Getty Images by [Amanda Calvo](https://time.com/author/amanda-calvo/) ## Amanda Calvo Jul 1, 2016 2:57 AM UTC Canadian conservation officials charged two men on Thursday under the Wildlife Act in connection with a YouTube video that went viral last year showing a man riding a moose [across a lake in British Columbia](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/moose-riders-youtube-fort-nelson-1.3660913?cmp=rss). The incident sparked a social-media uproar and a yearlong search for the perpetrators, which finally led to two suspects who will be tried for harassing wildlife, attempting to capture wildlife and hunting big game according to CBC. [In the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4kJ9TGhJA) a man pursues the animal by motor boat across the shallow waters of the Tuchodi Lakes with people heard laughing in the background before he takes it upon himself to leap onto the back of the moose. 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