Wallamba-Bulahdelah Revegetation Project (Revoked)

The Wallamba-Bulahdelah Revegetation Project (Revoked) was an environmental planting project located across two distinct sites in the Mid-Coast Council region of New South Wales. The southern site is situated approximately 5km east of Bulahdelah, a town historically known for forestry and timber operations, while the northern site lies near the Wallamba River, roughly 10km inland from Nabiac. Registered in February 2015, the project covered a total area of 20.05 hectares and was managed by Greenfleet Australia, a prominent environmental charity.

This project utilized the "Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings-FullCAM" methodology, which involves establishing permanent native forests on land previously cleared for agriculture. The methodology requires planting species native to the local area at a density sufficient to achieve forest cover, using the FullCAM model to calculate carbon sequestration. In the context of the Mid North Coast, this typically involves mixed eucalypt species designed to restore biodiversity while sequestering carbon. The project operated on land historically used for grazing and agriculture.

The region is characterized by a warm, humid subtropical climate with high rainfall, typically exceeding 1,100mm annually. The landscape in this area generally features texture-contrast soils such as Kurosols or Chromosols (often acidic clays and loams) in the undulating hills, with alluvial soils found in the river valleys. These conditions are highly favorable for rapid tree growth and forest regeneration, which aligns with the area's strong history of timber production and cattle grazing.

A notable aspect of this project is its recent revocation status. After operating for over a decade, the project was voluntarily revoked under Section 30 of the CFI Rule in November 2025. Greenfleet relinquished 651 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) regarding the project in July 2025. As Greenfleet is a non-profit organization that generally retains carbon rights to offset emissions for its donors rather than trading on the open market, this revocation may represent an administrative consolidation or a shift to managing the sites purely as conservation assets outside the formal ACCU scheme, rather than a failure of the plantings themselves.