Southwell Station

Southwell Station is a savanna fire management project located near the Edward River on the Cape York Peninsula, approximately 200km from Pormpuraaw in Far North Queensland. It was registered in July 2014 and covers 145,914.67 ha.

Savanna fire management projects involve the strategic and planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season. These cooler, controlled patch burns are designed to break up fuel loads and mitigate the risk of high-intensity, destructive wild fires from occurring in the late dry season, which significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

The Cape York Peninsula area is known for extensive cattle grazing and remote pastoral stations. The area is considered high rainfall, experiencing a tropical monsoonal climate, and the savanna soils are generally sandy, lateritic, and alluvial.

This project was set up to improve land management, reduce late-season fire risks, and protect local biodiversity, which includes several threatened regional ecosystems as well as federally and state-listed flora and fauna species. The project has undergone several administrative changes, including a method variation in February 2017 to adopt the 2015 savanna fire management determination, and a participant name change in September 2022 from Country Carbon Pty Ltd to Terra Carbon Pty Limited.