Euroli Carbon Farm

Euroli Carbon Farm is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located on Euroli Station in Unincorporated New South Wales, approximately 23km south-southwest of the border town of Hungerford, Queensland. It was registered in April 2015 and covers an expansive area of 27,678.10 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent even-aged native forests by facilitating the natural regeneration of native vegetation from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers. This regeneration is achieved by changing land management practices on land where regrowth was previously cleared and actively suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project commencing.

The remote region surrounding the project is characterised by a semi-arid climate with low annual rainfall, typical of the New South Wales outback. The soils in this area of the Southern Thomson Orogen generally consist of red earths, clay plains, and sandy loams. The predominant land use in this region is broadacre pastoral grazing, historically focused on sheep and cattle operations. To allow native vegetation to recover, the project's core activities focus on the careful management of the timing and extent of this grazing, as well as the humane management of feral animals.

An interesting note about this project is that it successfully fulfilled a government carbon abatement contract (CAC944194). Contracted in April 2017, the project completed its fixed delivery obligations by August 2021, supplying 85,275 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Commonwealth. Additionally, the Euroli project area has been of geological interest; it encompasses the site of the "Euroli 1" borehole, drilled by Geoscience Australia as part of the Southern Thomson Project to explore basement rocks and regional mineral potential.