Western Top End Fire Management Project Area A (Revoked)

Western Top End Fire Management Project Area A (Revoked) is a savanna fire management project located in the Victoria-Daly region of the Northern Territory, approximately 250km south of Darwin. It was registered in September 2015 and covers 663,401.64 ha.

Savanna fire management projects involve the strategic and planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season. This controlled burning reduces available fuel loads, which limits the risk, intensity, and size of highly destructive, late dry season wildfires that otherwise emit massive quantities of greenhouse gases.

The Victoria-Daly region is known for extensive beef cattle grazing on large pastoral leases, alongside Indigenous protected areas and national parks. The area is considered to have a tropical monsoonal climate characterized by heavy rainfall during the wet season, and soils are generally cracking clays in the river basins alongside undulating, rockier terrain.

This project successfully secured an Emissions Reduction Fund contract in April 2016 to deliver 160,000 tonnes of abatement to the Commonwealth. However, the contract lapsed and was ultimately terminated in November 2017 with no abatement delivered. Following this, the project was officially revoked on April 11, 2018, under section 30 of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule.