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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.

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