Strathburn Station

Strathburn Station is a Savanna Fire Management project located approximately 129km northwest of Musgrave and 506km northwest of Mareeba in the heart of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. It was registered in December 2014 and covers an extensive area of 246,564.30 hectares.

Savanna fire management projects involve conducting strategic and planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season. This standard practice reduces the vegetative fuel load, minimizing the risk, extent, and intensity of highly destructive late dry season wildfires. By doing so, the project avoids the release of higher levels of greenhouse gases and generates carbon credits for the emissions saved.

The Cape York region where the property is situated is primarily used for cattle grazing, with Strathburn itself operating as a large-scale cattle breeding station and a renowned wilderness hunting destination for wild boars and scrub bulls. The local environment is classified as a high rainfall area, receiving an average of 1,100 to 1,200 mm of rain annually. During the wet monsoonal season, much of the western side of the property becomes saturated, forming extensive ephemeral wetlands that feed into the Holroyd, Pretender, and Edward River systems. Soils in these tropical savannas are typically adapted to the extreme wet-dry climatic shifts of northern Australia.

An interesting milestone for this project occurred in June 2026, when a landmark Heads of Agreement was signed to share the economic benefits of the carbon project 50/50 between the pastoral leaseholder and the Wik Traditional Owners. Additionally, the project originally operated under the 2013 methodology determination but was updated to the 2015 method in early 2017. In December 2021, the active proponent was officially changed from Country Carbon Pty Ltd to Strathburn Cape York Carbon Pty Ltd.