Australia's Great Barrier Reef needs more care: report

A new report released on Monday into the health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has shown it is being deteriorated due to humans.

The overall condition of the Great Barrier Reef's inshore marine environment remains poor, the Queensland government report found.

The problem was largely due to run-off from farms.

The report assessed the run-off and the condition of the reef between 2009 and 2014, finding that sediment, nutrients and pesticide pollution had decreased, but Queensland was far from meeting its set targets.

Industries trying to reduce run-off will need to improve to meet targets -- for instance, only 14 percent of the sugarcane industry met best practice for nutrient loads, AAP and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

Grain industries exceeded their pesticides target by 90 percent in the Burdekin region.

Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles, who released the report on Monday, said there was more bad news than good in the report.

"If one of my kids came home with a report card like this, I'd be a bit disappointed," he told reporters.

"What is most disturbing is these results are far from our targets, and progress to these targets flatlined in the period 2013-2014.

"We saw a stalling of progress."

"Most concern during this period, we saw a loss of riparian vegetation, a loss of trees on the riverbanks leading into the reef during a period when our goal was in increase the number of trees." Endi