Darling River Eco Corridor 16

Darling River Eco Corridor 16 is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located on the property historically known as "Lowan Station," approximately 25km southwest of the small locality of Nymagee and roughly 100km southeast of the major service town of Cobar in New South Wales. Registered in July 2015, the project covers a substantial area of 9,160 hectares. The surrounding region, part of the Cobar Peneplain, is traditionally dominated by rangeland grazing of sheep and goats, as well as copper mining activities in the wider Nymagee area.

The project operates under the Human-Induced Regeneration methodology, which differs from environmental planting in that it does not involve putting seedlings in the ground. Instead, land managers encourage the regeneration of native forests from in-situ seed sources (such as rootstock and lignotubers) by removing the factors that previously suppressed their growth. For this project, activities include the cessation of mechanical clearing and the active management of grazing pressure from livestock and feral animals (particularly goats) to allow native vegetation to recover and reach forest cover status.

Environmentally, the site is situated in a semi-arid zone with an average annual rainfall of approximately 350mm to 400mm. The landscape is characterized by red earth soils (red sandy loams) on the plains and shallow, stony lithosols on the ridges. This project is part of a larger aggregation managed by Terra Carbon (a subsidiary of GreenCollar) known as the "Darling River Eco Corridor," which aims to create a contiguous zone of protected native vegetation in the upper catchments of the Darling River system to improve biodiversity and soil stability.