Bundanon Trust - Landcare Living Landscape - Regeneration Program (Revoked)

Bundanon Trust - Landcare Living Landscape - Regeneration Program (Revoked) was a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located on the Bundanon Trust properties along the Shoalhaven River, approximately 15 kilometers northwest of Nowra in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales. Registered in September 2015, the project covered a small area of roughly 59 hectares within the 1,100-hectare cultural and environmental estate gifted to the Australian people by artist Arthur Boyd. The surrounding region is a mix of protected bushland and agricultural grazing land, characterized by sandstone escarpments and river flats.

The project operated under the Human-Induced Regeneration methodology, which awards carbon credits for regenerating native forests where they have been suppressed for at least 10 years. Unlike tree planting projects, HIR focuses on land management changes, such as excluding livestock or managing non-native plants, to allow in-situ seed sources like lignotubers and rootstock to regenerate naturally. For this specific project, the primary activity involved managing invasive non-native plant species, likely dense infestations of Lantana and Acacia dealbata, which were suppressing the recovery of native vegetation on former grazing paddocks (specifically the Eearie Park and Beeweeree sections of the property).

The environment in this area features high rainfall, averaging between 1,000mm and 1,300mm annually, supporting lush Southern Lowland Wet Forest and rainforest communities. The soils are predominantly loamy, derived from the alluvial activity of the Shoalhaven River and the underlying Permian sandstones and siltstones of the Sydney Basin.

Notable for its integration of arts and ecology, the project was part of the broader "Landcare Living Landscape" initiative, a partnership involving Landcare Australia and Greening Australia to restore biodiversity on the estate. The project was voluntarily revoked in April 2019 under Section 30 of the CFI Rule. Voluntary revocation often occurs when a proponent determines that the project is no longer commercially viable, often due to the small scale of the area (59ha is relatively small for a carbon project) or administrative complexity, though the physical restoration work on the property continued through other grants and community programs.