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.

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 ...

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 ...