Fossil distribution area
Probably when the miocene later period was the approximately 8 - 9,000,000 years, the beginning panda starts on the Earth to appear. Afterward, in the pleistocene epoch early time, starts to present the panda small kind, its fossil discovery in the Guangxi Liucheng, Guangdong Luoding, Sichuan Wushan County, Shanxi Yang County and places such as Yunnan Yuan Mou. To the pleistocene epoch mid and late stage, the panda has developed the heyday, the panda Pakistan subspecies appears, and widely distributes southwest our country, South China, Central China, North China and north the northwest 16 provinces and cities - Beijing Choukoution, Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan as well as overseas Vietnam and Burma.
Historical distribution area
According to the ancient book and the local chronicle record, before nearly 2000, in provinces and so on our country's Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi had the panda distribution. Because the humanity produces active the radius to expand unceasingly, the panda habitat reduces gradually, presently only distributes south Shanxi western qin Lingnanpo, Gansu with the Sichuan basin northeast the mountain canyon area.
Panda modern distribution area
According to the investigation, only has less than 1000 pandas to distribute now in the Qin Lingnanpo, Mt. Minshan, Mt. Qionglai and big, the small range and the Luongson 6 mountain systems, and is divided the nearly 20 isolated populations. Because the forest cuts unceasingly, from the 50s to the 90s, the only 40 years, panda's habitat has been swallowed 4/5. This posed the enormous threat regarding panda's survival.