Cloudland Connectivity and Carbon (Revoked)

Cloudland Connectivity and Carbon (Revoked) was an environmental planting project located on the Atherton Tablelands, approximately 12km southwest of the town of Malanda in Far North Queensland. Registered in June 2013, the project covered a very small area of just 0.72 hectares. The surrounding region is renowned for its rich volcanic soil (red ferrosols) and high rainfall, supporting a mix of dairy farming, grazing, and tropical rainforest conservation.

The project operated under the Carbon Farming (Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings of Native Tree Species using the CFI Reforestation Modelling Tool) Methodology Determination 2012. This methodology involved establishing permanent plantings of native tree species on land that had been clear of forest for at least five years. The goal of such projects is to achieve "forest cover" status, typically defined by a potential height of at least two meters and 20% canopy cover, using species indigenous to the local area to ensure ecological suitability.

Notably, this project has been revoked. In January 2020, the Clean Energy Regulator issued a notice requiring the proponent, David Alan Hudson, to relinquish 105 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), effectively returning the credits generated by the project. The project was formally revoked shortly after in February 2020. The project's name, "Cloudland Connectivity," suggests it may have been intended as a wildlife corridor to connect fragmented patches of rainforest, a common conservation practice in the Tablelands to support species like the Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo.