Agriculture Many areas are subject to slow Substantial damage has cumul-ative threats such as soil been done.
Practices are acidification, salinity and improving in some areas.
Cropping lands There is particular concern Severe degradation will about rates of erosion in increase if current marginal cropping areas with practices continue. The shallow soils and variable long term sustainability climate. There is inadequate conservation Management methods are of old growth forests and some improving but monitoring other forest types. Logging is not yet adequate and competes with other uses in primary data are limited. Compared with other developed This lack of information nations, Australia has only limits our ability to use rudimentary information on the land in accordance with condition and productive its capabilities and to capacity of its land resources.