Lindermans Regeneration Project

Lindermans Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located approximately 40km south of Bourke and 115km north of Cobar in the Bourke Local Government Area of New South Wales. It was registered in February 2015 and covers an area of 4,774.86 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects involve establishing permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers. To be eligible, the project land must have been cleared of vegetation and had its natural regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project commencing. To achieve forest cover, typically defined as reaching a height of at least two metres and 20% crown cover, proponents must change land management practices to remove suppressants. For this project, the core activities include managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing and humanely managing feral animals.

The Bourke and Cobar regions represent a semi-arid outback environment characterised by low annual rainfall. The soils across this landscape are typically red earths, sandy loams, and clay floodplains. Given the dry and expansive terrain, the predominant land use in this region is broadacre pastoralism, primarily consisting of sheep and beef cattle grazing.

Originally registered to Travis and Lindsay Bambrick, the project participant name was varied in November 2019 to Fox's of Cobar Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Fox Family Superannuation Fund. The project operates with Climate Friendly Pty Ltd acting as the designated agent. In September 2023, the project underwent a methodology variation to align with Compilation No. 3 of the 2013 HIR methodology determination. Operating under a 100-year permanence period extending to 2115, the project also holds an active fixed-delivery Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC282794) established during the April 2015 auction, which committed 62,500 carbon credits to the Commonwealth.