Koolburra Station (Revoked)

Koolburra Station (Revoked) is a Savanna Fire Management project located approximately 65km north of Laura on the Peninsula Development Road, in the Cape York region of Far North Queensland. It was registered on September 23, 2013, and spans a vast project area of 160,907.50 hectares.

The early dry season savanna burning methodology involves the strategic and planned burning of savanna areas early in the dry season. By deliberately setting cooler, controlled fires early in the year, the project reduces the available fuel load. This mitigates the risk, extent, and intensity of highly destructive late-dry season wildfires, thereby reducing the overall emission of greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide.

The Koolburra Station property is primarily used for cattle grazing, operating as a large pastoral holding with an estimated carrying capacity of around 15,000 head. The station also serves as an off-grid tourism destination for wild boar hunting, Barramundi fishing, and camping. The region experiences a tropical savanna climate with high average rainfall of roughly 1,500mm per year. The local environment features flat terrain divided by creeks, low hills, open box woodlands with bloodwood and ironwood sand ridges, and melon hole black soil plains. The soils across the project area generally consist of a mixture of sandy loam, clay, and river loam.

Interestingly, the traditional name "Koolburra" translates to "big water," which accurately reflects the property's abundance of springs, lakes, swamps, and four intersecting river systems. The project successfully generated 10,458 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) before it was officially revoked on February 13, 2015, under section 33 of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Act. Public records also note that the project's proponent, Country Carbon Pty. Ltd., subsequently entered into an Enforceable Undertaking with the Clean Energy Regulator in May 2020.