Over the last 50 years, the red panda population in China has decreased by 40%. This significant decline is caused by many human factors. For example, for many years the Chinese have used the red panda’s fur for a certain hat that represents a happy and good start for newlyweds. In the modern day, poaching the red panda is illegal however many young red panda are killed by feral and domestic dogs. This causes the red panda’s population histogram to look more like a declining population histogram rather than the increasing population histogram. Another human factor contributing to the decline of the population would be due to human’s demand for resources forced companies to deforestation creating habitat – loss for red pandas. Furthermore, the red panda’s habitat is in a mountainous region and many farmers harvest maize crops, which erodes the mountainous regions at the bottom. This contribution significantly declined the red panda’s population because the red panda is very picky when it comes to their habitat. Their basic habitat need is already very difficult to find. In addition, the red panda is sensitive to heat and also has a terrible digestive system so it can only eat easily digitised food such as bamboo or lichen. Also, bamboo flowering, the event where a large area of bamboo die, has shortened the red panda’s food supply since two thirds of their diet consist of bamboo. In addition, red panda’s have low natality rate (the rate of birth) but high mortality rate (the rate of death).