Kellerberrin (Revoked)

Kellerberrin (Revoked) is an environmental planting project located approximately 10km south-west of the township of Kellerberrin in the Central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Registered in July 2015, the project covered an area of 64.83 hectares. The project was situated in a region heavily dominated by broadacre agriculture, specifically cereal cropping (wheat and canola) and sheep grazing.

The project operated under the Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings - FullCAM methodology. This method generally requires the establishment of permanent native trees, such as mixed-species environmental plantings or mallee eucalypt belts, at a density sufficient to achieve forest cover (typically at least 200 stems per hectare). The Carbon Positive Australia Ltd (formerly Carbon Neutral Charitable Fund) acted as the proponent. The primary goal of such projects is to sequester carbon in tree biomass while restoring local biodiversity on land that has been cleared for agricultural use for at least five years.

The environmental conditions in the Kellerberrin area are characteristic of a semi-arid Mediterranean climate. The region receives low annual rainfall, averaging approximately 325mm, with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. The soils in this part of the Wheatbelt are typically sandy loams or sand-over-clay duplex soils. These landscapes often face significant land management challenges, including soil acidity and dryland salinity, which reforestation projects frequently aim to mitigate.

The project was voluntarily revoked in September 2017 under Section 33 of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. Section 33 allows proponents to voluntarily withdraw a project from the scheme; this can occur for various reasons, including changes in land ownership, project viability, or a shift to different restoration funding models. As a charitable organization, Carbon Positive Australia often conducts planting activities for biodiversity and ecosystem restoration funded by donations rather than solely for the generation of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).