Holroyd Station

Holroyd Station is a savanna fire management project located at the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland 530km northwest of Mareeba. It was registered in November 2014 and covers 282,066.42 ha.

Savanna fire management projects involve the strategic and planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season. This controlled burning reduces ground fuel loads, which prevents more destructive, higher-emission wild fires in the late dry season.

The Cape York Peninsula area is known for broad-scale cattle farming and environmental reserves. The area is considered high rainfall tropical savanna, and soils are generally kandosols (sandy loams) and alluvial clays along the Holroyd Plain drainage systems.

This project was set up on a property that includes Queensland's largest nature refuge, protecting nationally-recognised wetlands. The property was purchased by Corporate Carbon in a $29 million aggregation transaction, demonstrating how carbon projects and nature refuges can operate comfortably alongside commercial cattle operations, with the cattle helping to graze down fuel loads.