This species depends on forest-fringed waterbodies with good stocks of fish. It is thought to be undergoing a moderately rapid population reduction owing to forest degradation, over-fishing and perhaps especially, pollution, and may already have a moderately small population. It is consequently classified as Near Threatened. Ichthyophaga humilis occurs in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.
Lesser Fish-eagle Icthyophaga humilis (NT)