Euroli Carbon Farm

Euroli Carbon Farm is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located at Euroli Station, approximately 23km south-south-west of Hungerford (Queensland), just across the border in Far Western New South Wales. It was registered in April 2015 and covers 27,678.10 ha.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve regenerating permanent even-aged native forests through alternative land management practices on land that was previously cleared of vegetation and where regrowth had been actively suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project's commencement. Standard requirements for this methodology at this site dictate managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing, as well as humanely managing feral animals, to allow in-situ seed sources (including rootstock and lignotubers) to successfully establish.

The Far Western New South Wales and Hungerford area is heavily known for large-scale sheep and cattle grazing operations. The area is semi-arid with low rainfall, and the local environment typically consists of weathered red earths, sandy loams, and variably conductive weathered cover characteristic of the Eromanga basin edge.

Interestingly, Euroli is a historic 80,000-acre sheep station that project proponent Bruce Hearn has managed since at least 1967. Hearn was historically noted for his exceptional sheepdog training, famously using his champion dog "Rocket" to single-handedly muster 900 sheep across a 10,000-acre paddock on the property. Additionally, the property served as the site for the "Euroli 1" stratigraphic borehole, which was drilled by Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of NSW to map the underlying basement rocks of the Southern Thomson Orogen. In terms of carbon abatement performance, the project successfully fulfilled an April 2017 Commonwealth contract to deliver 85,275 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), completing the delivery in August 2021.