How many red pandas where there before they were endangered?

Answer 1

This is very difficult to answer, I have been trying to get numbers on Red Panda Populations as different sources have different opinions. The best page (with references) was this excerpt from www.animalinfo.org. Maybe somebody can follow this up and either get permission to publish this data or follow the references to come up with a copyright free bit of research.

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== * 1994: Vulnerable * 1996 - 2004: Endangered(Criteria: C2a) (IUCN 2004) == 2004: Occurs in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar and Nepal. (IUCN 2004) == [Note: Figures given are for wild populations only.] * WORLD ** 1999: "The IUCN estimates that fewer than 2500 mature individuals survive." (Nowak 1999) ** 2001: 16,000 - 20,000 (Choudhury 2001) * China ** 1998: May be as few as 5000 - 6000 (Roberts 1998) ** 1998: 6000 - 7000 (Sichuan: 3000 - 3400; Yunnan: 1600 - 2000; Tibet: 1400 - 1600) (Wei et al. 1998) * India ** 2001: 5000 - 6000 (Choudhury 2001) * Nepal ** 1994: May be as few as 300 (Glatston 1994) ** 1998: May have only a few hundred (Roberts 1998) == The red panda is found in the Himalayas, as well as in other high mountains of northern Myanmar and western Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, China. Its confirmed westernmost range seems to be the Namlung Valley in Mugu District and the Lake Rara region of northwestern Nepal. The southern limit is the Liakiang Range of western Yunnan, China and the northern and eastern limit is the upper Min Valley of western Sichuan, China. (Roberts 1992) There are two subspecies of the red panda. The range of Ailurus fulgens fulgens extends from Nepal through northeastern India (West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh), Bhutan and into China (Bahuguna et al. 1998). A.f. styani is only found in China, in the areas of the Hengduan Mountains in Sichuan and the East Nujiang River of Yunnan Province (Wei et al. 1998), and in northern Myanmar (Roberts 1998). The red panda was previously distributed in China over a larger area than today, including western Sichuan and Yunnan, southern Shanxi and Gansu, northern Guizhou, and the southwest of Tibet and Qinghai Provinces. However, it has become extinct in Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Guizhou Provinces and its range is now confined to Sichuan, Yunnan, and Tibet. The probable area of red panda habitat in China is approximately 37,000 sq km (14,000 sq mi). (Wei et al. 1998) The extent of occurrence of the red panda in India is about 170,000 sq km (65,000 sq mi), although its area of occupancy within this may only be about 25,000 sq km (9600 sq mi). (Choudhury 2001) There is increasing evidence that the red panda is rare and patchily distributed and is continuing to decline.

Answer 2

Estimates are hard to derive as concerns the red panda because many creatures look similar enough to the red panda that they end up being counted and many red pandas live too far from human settlements to be noticed.

Estimates range between 2500 individuals to 20,000 individuals, but most the common estimate is 10,000 individuals.

Answer 3

Type your answer here... Scientists believe that the population of the Giant Panda is about 1,000. And getting smaller every year. No one real knows what the population was before China's population kept growing; and because the population of China was growing, the Giant Panda's habitat was destroyed. :(

I expect that the original population was probably about 1,000,000-2,000,000 since it has been proven that the giant panda once lived all through out China and in northern Vietnam. Sadly now the giant panda is only found in the central mountains of China.

Answer 4

Well now in 2012, there is about 1,000 giant pandas. No one knows for sure, but people estimate the highest population was around 20,000. They r now endangered because of food loss/ bamboo forests slowly dying. Using bamboo for hair products and flooring, in house plants, and house items like bamboo made curtains etc. Poachers are also killing pandas, some say because of their fur coats. Lastly because giant pandas are picky of choosing mates to mate with and the most in a litter is 2 panda cubs. Usually, the female panda will abandon one cub for another.

Info from- a 12 yr old girl that knows her stuff!

Answer 5

About 10,000 individuals, in the wild and zoos.
Red pandas are an endangered species. There are only around 2500 red pandas left in the wild today. They are often killed by traps set for other animals.

Answer 6

Estimates of wild panda populations vary but there were at least 2000 to 3000 as far back as the 1950s. The numbers decreased somewhat in the last half of the 20th century as habitats were still being impacted by Chinese land development.

Answer 7

I don't know..... I'm doing this animal assgnment about the red panda, and im trying to figure this out myself.

Answer 8

20,000