A harp seal seen on the Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada. C. Dani & I. Jeske / De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images For centuries, demand for that fur was booming business.

In 2006 fur made up $16.4 million of the $18 million worth of seal products Canada exported. Preliminary data from the Canadian government shows that sales of all seal products overseas plummeted ...

Harp seal pups -- with their beady eyes and soft, pillowy fur -- are tremendously adorable. Yet new heartbreaking images show the pups in danger, stranded on beaches as sea ice failed to form ...

Harp seal pups -- with their beady eyes and soft, pillowy fur -- are tremendously adorable. Yet new heartbreaking images show the pups in danger, stranded on beaches as sea ice failed to form ...

And the pelts, about 400,000 in the last decade go to Turkey for coats, “wild fur coats,” which sell from anywhere from $3,000 to $30,000. Greece also imported seal skins, but the worldwide ...

Hamill says harp seals can't give birth on land, only ice. Scientists estimate within the next 50 years, the Harp seals won't have any options left in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

But there is dwindling demand for seal fur. Seal products were banned in United States in 1972, in the European Union in 2009, and in 2011, Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped his nation's ...

The week's news at a glance.Cap-aux-Meules, Canada The commercial hunt for baby harp seals has undergone a quiet revival in Canada, The New York Times reported this week. Sales of seal skins ...