Bamboo Station

Bamboo Station is a Savanna Fire Management project located on the Cape York Peninsula, approximately 65km southeast of Coen in Far North Queensland. It was registered in July 2015 and covers an extensive 86,028 hectares.

Savanna fire management projects involve undertaking early dry-season strategic burning activities. These controlled, cooler fires reduce the natural fuel loads in the landscape and mitigate the risk, frequency, and severity of intense late dry-season wildfires, which avoids overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The general land use in the surrounding Cape York area is dominated by large-scale pastoral grazing operations, with many properties, including Bamboo Station, operating as extensive cattle stations. The environment falls within a high rainfall zone typical of Australia's tropical savannas. Soils across this region generally range from sandy loams to heavier clays around the wet season drainage systems, supporting vast eucalypt woodlands and native grasslands.

Interestingly, the Bamboo Station property has a deep local history and was the 1915 birthplace of notable Aboriginal Police Tracker Johnson Upton, who later formed a strong link between the regional police and the Aboriginal community while carrying out packhorse patrols across the Cape York Peninsula. Furthermore, Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) generated by the Bamboo Station project have been utilized by prominent corporate buyers; for example, Dexus and the GPT Group retired units from this specific project to help achieve Climate Active Carbon Neutral certification for the Australia Square precinct in Sydney.