There is and have been many efforts towards the conservation of the red pandas, many of which have been made by the Red Panda Network/Project and its partners. This organization protects red pandas and save their habitats through local communities focusing on research, education, and sustainable development. For example, they have set up a community-based monitoring of a Red Panda population which is called Project Punde Kundo. In this program they employ local villagers to monitor their nearby forests and educate their forest users about red pandas and provide the villagers with what they need in order to preserve the forests and the homes of the red pandas. This project is funded by 95% of the donations that are received while the other 5% is used to support administrative costs in the United States. Zoos also play an important role in preserving the red panda population. They do this through saving and rehabilitating abandoned or sick pandas such as Farley and breeding animals within their zoo breeding programs like the twins born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo.(8)

Although many zoos are encouraging captive breeding so that the red panda population will become stable, their numbers in the wild are still dwindling and this poses a problem for many people and ecosystems. If current trends continue then the red panda’s survival will be completely dependant on the red pandas that are in captivity and in many areas such as China and Nepal the red panda will become extirpated. There is now less than 2,500 red pandas left in the wild and over the past 50 years the red panda population in China has decreased by 40% as long as we refuse to take action to save and protect the red pandas. One thing that we could personally do is to raise awareness about the red panda, many people do not realize the dangers that the red pandas are facing. Another thing that we could do is to donate to organizations that are working to preserve red pandas and their habitats. With everyone’s efforts perhaps the in the future the red pandas will be able to flourish again. (9)