Glenwood Native Forest Protection Project

Glenwood Native Forest Protection Project is an Avoided Deforestation project located on the "Glenwood" property, approximately 25km southwest of Nymagee in the Cobar Shire of central NSW. It was registered in July 2014 and covers 9,023.83ha.

Avoided deforestation projects prevent the clearing of native forests that had a valid clearing permit issued before 1 July 2010. By protecting the native forest from being converted to an agricultural system, the project avoids greenhouse gas emissions. Standard methodology requirements include demonstrating the land would have been cleared, managing the area to ensure ongoing forest protection, and measuring the preserved carbon stocks using allometric equations alongside biomass surveys.

The Cobar Peneplain bioregion is predominantly used for sheep and goat grazing, alongside some dryland cereal cropping and copper mining operations. The environment is considered semi-arid, experiencing hot and dry conditions with low, unreliable rainfall averaging around 364mm annually. The local soils generally consist of red earths across rolling downs and rocky ridges. These conditions support semi-arid woodland communities dominated by mulga, Eremophila shrubs, white cypress pine, and poplar box.

This project was established to safeguard these native vegetation communities, which are highly vulnerable to local extinction due to historical excessive clearing in the bioregion. Managed by project proponent Michael John Nicholson and agent Terra Carbon Pty Limited, the site has a 100-year permanence period ensuring protection until 2114. Additionally, in May 2015, the project varied its method to the updated Avoided Deforestation 1.1 Methodology Determination.