Biodiverse Carbon Conservation Lydeamore (Revoked)

Biodiverse Carbon Conservation Lydeamore (Revoked) was an environmental planting project located in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, roughly 40km southeast of Loxton and east of Wanbi. Registered in July 2015, the project covered a significant area of approximately 819 hectares. The project was situated within the Karoonda East Murray local government area, a region predominantly defined by dryland agriculture, including cereal cropping and sheep grazing on large pastoral properties.

The project was designed under the 'Carbon Farming (Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings of Native Tree Species using the CFI Reforestation Modelling Tool) Methodology Determination 2012'. This methodology required the establishment of permanent plantings of native tree species on land that had been clear of forest for at least five years. Unlike later methods that utilized the FullCAM model widely, this specific 2012 determination relied on the Reforestation Modelling Tool (RMT) to calculate carbon abatement, a system that was eventually superseded by more flexible modelling approaches.

Environmentally, the location falls within a semi-arid zone characterized by low annual rainfall, typically averaging between 300mm and 350mm. The soil composition in this part of the Mallee is generally sandy loam to sandy earth, often associated with dune-swale systems and calcrete layers common to the Murray Basin. These conditions support Mallee scrub vegetation but require careful management when re-establishing permanent canopy cover to ensure seedling survival against drought stress.

The project was revoked on August 28, 2017, under Section 33 of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. This section typically pertains to the voluntary revocation of a project by the proponent, which in this case was Australian Integrated Carbon Financial Services Pty Ltd. It is notable that during this period (2015–2017), many projects utilizing the 2012 RMT method were either transitioned to the 2014 FullCAM method or revoked and re-registered to take advantage of updated abatement calculations and easier compliance mechanisms. The specific name "Lydeamore" likely refers to the pastoral property or station on which the planting was intended.