Why is the giant panda rare?

This animal has probably never been widespread in China.
It depends entirely on bamboo forests to feed itself. Each panda has a very large territory because it needs a huge amount of food.

The forests are being destroyed to make way for agriculture and the habitat of the panda is gradually disappearing.
The remaining bamboo plots are often small and can only house two or three panda that can not join other pandas to breed. These small isolated groups are therefore doomed to disappear. Some pandas live in zoos but attempts to breed in captivity are rarely successful