One thing we do know is that the panda is rare and is becoming rare. Estimates put the number of pandas alive today at only about 1,000. Now live almost exclusively in a small area of southern China,the only place they have been able to find ample supplies of their main food bamboo. The reason pandas are becoming so rare is that it is becoming harder for them to find bamboo to eat. Because of agricultural needs,the forests of China are now separated from each other,so the panda populations are forceed to increasingly small,isolated areas,When food supplies in any one area gone,the pandas of that area die.