Balurga Station

Balurga Station is a Savanna Fire Management project located on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, approximately 75km southeast of the Aboriginal community of Pormpuraaw and 400km northwest of Cairns. It was registered in August 2015 and covers 116,848.58 Ha.

Savanna fire management projects involve the strategic, planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season. This practice creates a mosaic of burnt and unburnt country, reducing fuel loads and preventing larger, hotter, and more destructive wildfires from occurring late in the dry season.

The Cape York region is known for cattle grazing, traditional Indigenous land management, and conservation. The area experiences a wet-dry tropical climate with high monsoonal rainfall in the summer wet season, while the soils consist of a mix of sandy loams and alluvial clays along the regional river systems.

This project was set up to reduce the risk of late dry season wild fires by carrying out early-season strategic fire management activities. Interestingly, the Clean Energy Regulator accepted an Enforceable Undertaking from the original project proponent, Country Carbon Pty Ltd, in May 2020. The participant name was subsequently varied to Terra Carbon Pty Limited in December 2022. To date, the project has successfully generated 48,285 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).