Banbansprings_FPA1

Banbansprings_FPA1 is a Savanna Fire Management project located on Ban Ban Springs Station, approximately 46km southeast of the town of Adelaide River and 140km south of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Registered in February 2013, the project operates across a substantial area of roughly 256,192 hectares within the Victoria Daly region. The property itself is a well-known pastoral lease with a history of cattle grazing and tourism, utilizing the region's vast savanna woodlands and floodplains.

The project operates under the 2015 Emissions Abatement through Savanna Fire Management methodology. This involves conducting strategic, planned burns during the early dry season (typically cooler and moister conditions) to reduce the fuel load. By doing so, the project aims to minimize the frequency and intensity of late dry season wildfires, which are responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions (methane and nitrous oxide) and damage to biodiversity.

Ban Ban Springs is situated in the high rainfall zone of the Top End, receiving a mean annual rainfall of approximately 1,340mm. The landscape is diverse, featuring ridges with skeletal soils, gravelly alluvial flats, and areas of black soil on the floodplains of the Margaret and Mary Rivers. In late 2022, the station was acquired by Corporate Carbon (through Umlilo Holdings Pty Ltd as trustee for CC Stage 3 Agricultural Trust) for approximately $28.9 million, marking a significant investment by a carbon aggregator into active pastoral land.