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Demands on our environment
Our environment is under stress from many different human activities.This graph illustrates what some of these stresses are.

Irrigation: Types and problems
The ways that many agricultural lands are currently irrigated is costly for our environment in terms of water use and in terms of soil health. This graph shows some of the different methods of irrigation and the problems they can cause.

Sustainable Energy
This graph shows the major sources of energy that we use, and what percentage of these energy sources are considered renewable.

The Costs of Modern Agriculture
This graph looks at how modern intensive farming practices are harming our environment.

Australia's Major Vegetation Groups - pre 1750's habitat remaining
This map shows the trees we had before white settlement (pre-1750’s vegetation). The dark red shows which bioregions only have a very small percentage of original vegetation types remaining, ascending through to red, yellow, pink, and cream, where the highest percentage of original vegetation types remain.

Annual Total Rainfall 1950-2006
From the Bureau of Meteorology shows the trend in total annual rainfall for the whole of Australia from 1950-2006.

Trend in Mean Temperatures in Australia - 1970-2009
From the Bureau of Meteorology, this map shows where and how much much temperatures in Australia have risen from 1970 - 2009.