The BirdLife International Aquatic Warbler Conservation Team maintains a list of critical and important threats to the Aquatic Warbler on their website http://www.aquaticwarbler.net/sar/. For more details on the threats please visit their website.

  • Change in hydrological regime in key sites (critical)
  • Breeding habitat changes due to abandonment (critical)
  • Habitat changes and habitat loss in wintering areas (high, potentially critical)
  • Loss of breeding habitat including drainage and peat extraction (medium, but locally critical)
  • Breeding habitat changes due to uncontrolled burning (high)
  • Eutrophication by waste water (medium)
  • Eutrophication resulting from mire drainage (medium)
  • Road building (overall low, but locally high)
  • Unsuitable management by cutting or grazing (low, but locally high)
  • Disturbance caused by man (low and localised)
  • Habitat change and loss at migration sites (unknown)