The Pallas’s Fish-eagleis a native of Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Islamic Republic of, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, , Russian Federation, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It is very much associated with wetlands, chiefly large lakes and rivers, from the lowlands to 5,000 m. It commonly nests in trees near streams.

Haliaeetus leucoryphus is found across a vast range and yet it is believed to have declined drastically during the 20th century in Pakistan, China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The inhabitants are likely to number fewer than 10,000 grown-up individuals.

Major threats are loss of habitat, disturbance and degradation. Across the Indian subcontinent, and most likely the majority of its range, wetlands have been exhausted or transformed for farming and human settlements. The felling of large vegetation near wetlands has reduced the accessibility of nest and perch sites. Habitat loss and degradation are compounded by disorder of wetlands. Reductions in the prey base, mainly through hunting and over-fishing, are additional penalties of rising human pressure.

According to the IUCN publications, the following actions are being proposed for Conservation.It includes the safeguard of nest sites from trouble, secure the lasting nest-trees and reinstate them around wetlands. Moreover conduct research into the species’ breeding ecology, carry out surveys in central Asia and Myanmar to set up its status, distribution and threats and establish protected areas for key populations. Additionally in 2012 it was proposed to conduct research into the species’ ecology and behavior and carry out satellite tracking to study the species’ travels.