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	<updated>2020-05-28T19:21:12Z</updated>

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			<name>Born Free USA</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[A Temporary End to Canadian Commercial Seal Hunt]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27727</id>
		<updated>2020-05-28T19:21:12Z</updated>
		<published>2020-05-28T19:21:12Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Advocates for Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Partner Blogs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Canada" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Grey seals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="seal" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Seal hunting" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[
Harp seals have been targets of Canada’s seal industry for centuries, but they are receiving a bit of a reprieve in 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. While the author of this piece expects that the seal hunt will resume when the effects of the virus diminish, the article serves as a reminder of the resilience of animal populations when they are freed from the harvesting pressure from humans.]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>The Conversation</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Can your pets get coronavirus, and can you catch it from them?]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27704</id>
		<updated>2020-04-28T21:00:45Z</updated>
		<published>2020-04-28T21:00:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Animals in the News" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Partner Blogs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Pets and Companions" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Coronavirus" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="COVID" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Diseases" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Pets" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="wildlife markets" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It was previously reported that lions and tigers in New York’s Bronx Zoo had become infected with SARS-CoV-2, and they were displaying symptoms of COVID-19. Now, it seems that there is evidence that other species, namely cats and dogs, can become infected with the virus, though they respond differently to it than humans do. This week's blog post below discusses the possibility of catching COVID-19 from a dog or a cat.]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Sara Amundson and Kitty Block</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fauci calls for closing down wildlife markets around the globe]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27697</id>
		<updated>2020-04-16T21:35:42Z</updated>
		<published>2020-04-16T21:35:42Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Advocates for Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Animals as Commodities" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Animals in the News" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Legal Issues" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Partner Blogs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="CITES" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Coronavirus" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="COVID" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Endangered species" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Poaching" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="wildlife markets" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="wildlife trade" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Closing wildlife markets within countries, as Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House coronavirus task force rightly suggests, may be a more effective tool, however. This article examines the prevalence of wildlife markets around the world and notes that the ones in Asia aren’t the only ones worthy of scrutiny.]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>The Conversation</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[It&#8217;s wrong to blame bats for the coronavirus epidemic]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27690</id>
		<updated>2020-04-02T22:01:35Z</updated>
		<published>2020-04-02T22:01:35Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Animals in the News" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Mental, Emotional, and Social Life" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Bats" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Coronavirus" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="epidemic" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Health" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="pandemic" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Public health" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="White-nose syndrome" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bats, which make up a group of more than 1,200 species, are the only mammals capable of flight. They are important pollinators and seed dispersers, and they provide pest control by eating insects. A number of species also carry viruses that can sicken livestock and human beings---and they likely played some role in the SARS outbreak in 2002. Although much more evidence needs to be collected, researchers suspect that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus at the center of the coronavirus pandemic) originated in bats, and wildlife officials fear that they may become targets of human persecution. ]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>The Conversation</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Coronavirus spotlights the link between clean water and health]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27682</id>
		<updated>2020-03-27T17:30:00Z</updated>
		<published>2020-03-27T17:30:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Conservation" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Environment and Habitat" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Clean Water Act" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Coronavirus" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Health" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Public health" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Water pollution" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The connection between washing with clean water and avoiding coronavirus is an important one. ]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>The Conversation</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How fake assistance animals and their users are gaming the system and increasing prejudices]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27672</id>
		<updated>2020-03-17T20:38:22Z</updated>
		<published>2020-03-17T20:37:54Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Legal Issues" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Mental, Emotional, and Social Life" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Partner Blogs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Pets and Companions" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Working Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="emotional support animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Service animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Service dogs" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Service dogs and other assistance animals play important roles in helping people with disabilities interact and function in the modern world. But what happens when people exploit the system, possibly even to the point of blatant fraud?]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>The Conversation</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Iceland didn’t hunt any whales in 2019&#8212;and public appetite for whale meat is fading]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27665</id>
		<updated>2020-03-04T23:11:18Z</updated>
		<published>2020-03-04T23:11:18Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Advocates for Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Animals in the News" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Conservation" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Food and Farm Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Legal Issues" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Partner Blogs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Threatened and Endangered Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Ecology" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Iceland" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="International Whaling Commission" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Marine animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Minke whales" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Whale hunting" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Whale meat" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Since the International Whaling Commission placed an international moratorium on whaling in 1986, few countries have engaged in the practice. Iceland was one of them, however, and it has hunted whales sporadically since then and has been roundly criticized by many neighboring countries for doing so. There are indications now that a generational shift in consuming whale meat for food is taking place in the country---with younger citizens avoiding whale meat altogether and thus reducing the economic demand for the product.]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>The Conversation</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[&#8220;Bee-washing&#8221; hurts bees and misleads consumers]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=27658</id>
		<updated>2020-02-26T16:22:34Z</updated>
		<published>2020-02-26T16:20:09Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Agriculture" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Bees" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Food chain" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Honey bees" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Pesticides" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Pollinators" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bee populations are declining because of pesticides and other human-generated activities. Some studies estimate that more than 40 percent of insect species' numbers are falling and that the numbers of insects at large decrease by 2.5 percent per year. While best known for their honey and wax, the practical value of bees as pollinators is enormously greater than the value of these products. ]]></summary>
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