Gambolalley Regeneration Project

Gambolalley Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located approximately 80km northwest of Cobar in western NSW. It was registered in August 2015 and covers 33,125.88ha.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve changing land management practices to allow native forests to regenerate from existing seed banks, with the standard requirement of the vegetation eventually reaching a forest cover of at least 2 metres in height and 20% canopy cover.

The Cobar region is known for pastoral grazing, particularly sheep, cattle, and goats. The area is considered semi-arid with low rainfall averaging around 250mm per year, and the soils are generally red earths, sandy loams, and gravelly profiles.

This project was set up to establish permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources on land that was previously cleared and where regrowth was suppressed for at least 10 years. This is achieved primarily through the humane management of feral animals to protect emerging rootstock and lignotubers.

The project has undergone several variations, including an area reduction in December 2015 and a 2019 proponent change to Charles Allan Mitchell. The Gambolalley property itself has faced extreme weather conditions, highlighted by a severe drought in 2018 where it received only 24mm of rain over the first eight months of the year. The property's landscape is also ecologically unique, known for hosting ancient gravel mounds constructed by an extinct species of megapode bird. In July 2026, the project successfully completed its Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC102208) which was originally signed in November 2015.