Darling River Eco Corridor 24 (Revoked)

Darling River Eco Corridor 24 (Revoked) is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located on a property known as "The Meadows", approximately 55km south-west of Cobar in western New South Wales. It was officially registered in July 2015 and covers a vast area of 27,993.87 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest projects involve implementing new land management practices to allow native forests to regenerate on land where vegetation was previously cleared or consistently suppressed for at least 10 years. Under this methodology, standard requirements dictate that the regenerated vegetation must have the potential to reach native forest cover (at least 20% crown cover and 2 meters in height). For this project, requirements were met by managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing and conducting humane feral animal control to encourage the regrowth of permanent native forests from in-situ seed sources, including rootstock and lignotubers.

The Cobar region is known predominantly for sheep and rangeland goat grazing, alongside some opportunistic cropping and an increasing focus on carbon farming. The area sits within the Cobar Peneplain bioregion, which features a semi-arid climate with characteristically hot, dry conditions and unreliable rainfall. Soils across the region are generally quick-responding sandy loams and red clays.

Originally known as "The Meadows Human-Induced Regeneration Project", the project name was varied to "Darling River Eco Corridor 24" in May 2015. The property itself has served as a notable research site in the environmental market space. The landholders previously collaborated with CSIRO and the project proponent, Terra Carbon Pty Limited (a subsidiary of the GreenCollar Group), to study landscape productivity and carbon sequestration potential in the Western Division. Despite the active focus on carbon farming within the property aggregation, this specific ACCU project was officially revoked on August 13, 2021, under section 30 of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Rule.