Biodiverse Carbon Conservation

Biodiverse Carbon Conservation is an environmental planting project located at the Peniup property near Jerramungup, approximately 380km south-east of Perth in Western Australia. It was registered in April 2015 and covers 771.58 hectares.

Environmental planting projects involve establishing permanent plantings of a mix of native tree species at a typical density of at least 200 stems per hectare. To meet the requirements of the FullCAM methodology determination, these plantings must occur on land that was predominantly used for agricultural purposes for at least five years prior to the project's commencement.

The Jerramungup area is well known for broadacre agriculture, primarily wheat cropping and sheep grazing. The region is considered a semi-arid, Mediterranean environment with an average annual rainfall of around 450mm, and the soils generally consist of sandy loams and duplex profiles.

This project has successfully restored biodiverse native vegetation to historically over-cleared farmland and forms a vital piece of landscape-scale habitat for the Gondwana Link, a conservation corridor connecting the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River National Parks. The habitat creation supports threatened native wildlife, including the Malleefowl and Carnaby's Black Cockatoo. Interestingly, the site integrates farm forestry objectives alongside carbon sequestration by including areas of Australian native sandalwood. Following a variation in September 2017, the participant name was updated from Australian Integrated Carbon Financial Services Pty Ltd to Biodiverse Carbon Conservation Pty Ltd, and the project's crediting is now actively managed by Canopy Nature Based Solutions Pty Ltd.