Astrea Station

Astrea Station is a Savanna Fire Management project located near Yarraden on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, approximately 60km west of the Musgrave Roadhouse and 450km north of Mareeba. It was registered in September 2014 and covers 62,765.19 ha.

Savanna fire management projects involve the strategic and planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season. The standard requirement is to shift burning to earlier in the year when conditions are cooler and moister, creating a mosaic of burnt and unburnt areas that effectively reduces the risk, intensity, and overall greenhouse gas emissions of destructive late dry season wildfires.

The Cape York Peninsula region is predominantly known for large-scale beef cattle grazing and pastoral breeding operations. The area is classified as a high rainfall tropical savanna zone, characterized by a strongly monsoonal climate with intense wet seasons and dry winters. Soils across the region are generally ancient and highly weathered, mainly featuring lateritic profiles, Cenozoic sands, alluvium, and underlying sandstone.

Astrea Station operates as a fully functional pastoral holding running a Brahman base herd, and notably manages its livestock without the use of helicopter mustering. The property was publicly listed for sale between 2022 and 2023, during which the carbon project was heavily promoted as generating a valuable additional passive income stream. Over its lifetime, the carbon project has undergone several administrative variations, including an update to the 2015 methodology determination in January 2017, and multiple proponent transfers, most recently shifting to S.C. BROWNING PTY. LTD. in March 2025.