Darling River Eco Corridor 19 (Revoked)

Darling River Eco Corridor 19 (Revoked) is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located at "Normavale" station, approximately 35km southwest of the rural locality of Nymagee and roughly 90km southeast of Cobar in central-western New South Wales. Originally registered in July 2015 under the name "Normavale Human-Induced Regeneration Project," it covered a substantial area of 9,730 hectares before being voluntarily revoked in December 2017. The project was part of a larger aggregation of carbon farming initiatives managed by Terra Carbon (a subsidiary of GreenCollar) aimed at establishing a biodiversity corridor across the Darling River catchment.

The project operated under the Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) methodology, which credits landholders for regenerating native forests on land where vegetation has been suppressed for at least 10 years, typically by livestock or feral animals. Rather than planting new trees, HIR projects rely on the in-situ seed bank. The primary activities for this project involved managing the timing and extent of grazing and humanely controlling feral animals (specifically goats, which are prevalent in the Cobar region) to allow native species such as Mulga (Acacia aneura) and Bimble Box (Eucalyptus populnea) to regenerate.

The region surrounding Nymagee and Cobar is characterized by a semi-arid climate with variable, low rainfall and hot summers. The landscape consists largely of red earth soils and lithosols supporting acacia shrublands and woodlands. The dominant land use in this area is extensive grazing of sheep and cattle, often co-existing with opportunistic harvesting of feral goats.

An interesting note regarding this project is its revocation under Section 30 of the CFI Rule. This section refers to a voluntary revocation request by the proponent. Such revocations were common during the early years of the Emissions Reduction Fund as developers consolidated projects, adjusted boundaries, or re-registered projects under updated methodological determinations to optimize abatement potential. The "Darling River Eco Corridor" remains a flagship initiative for GreenCollar, covering over 150,000 hectares across NSW and Queensland, suggesting this specific project area may have been re-incorporated into a different project configuration following its 2017 revocation.