Darling River Eco Corridor 12 (Revoked)

ERF101328

Project Information:

Darling River Eco Corridor 12 (Revoked) was a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located on the "Bulla Park" pastoral station, approximately 120km west of Cobar in the Western Division of New South Wales. Registered in June 2015 and originally named the "Bulla Park Human-Induced Regeneration Project," it covered a significant area of 24,230 hectares. The project was voluntarily revoked in December 2017 under section 30 of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Rule, a provision often used when proponents wish to restructure or withdraw a project.

The project was situated within the Cobar Peneplain bioregion, an area characterized by a semi-arid climate with unreliable rainfall that can occur in both summer and winter. The landscape typically supports grazing for sheep and goats, which is the primary land use in the region. The soils in this vicinity are generally red earths and sandy loams, often supporting vegetation communities such as Mulga (Acacia aneura), Poplar Box woodlands, and White Cypress Pine.

Operating under the "Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest" methodology, the project aimed to regenerate native vegetation on land where regrowth had been suppressed for at least 10 years. This process involves changes in land management, specifically the exclusion of livestock and the humane management of feral animals like goats, to allow native seed banks and rootstock to regenerate into forest cover. As part of the broader "Darling River Eco-Corridor" aggregation managed by Terra Carbon (a subsidiary of GreenCollar), this project was one of several initiatives designed to create a contiguous corridor of regenerated native forest in the Upper Darling catchment.