Paroowidgee Regeneration Project

Paroowidgee Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located approximately 45km west of Wanaaring and 220km west of Bourke in the remote outback of New South Wales. It was registered in September 2015 and covers an area of 15,325.22 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects establish permanent native forests by altering land management practices to encourage assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources, including rootstocks and lignotubers. Standard requirements for this methodology dictate that the land must have been cleared of vegetation and its regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project commencing. To facilitate this natural regeneration, the Paroowidgee project actively manages the timing and extent of livestock grazing and implements the humane management of feral animals.

The Wanaaring area is remote agricultural country known primarily for large-scale pastoral operations, with sweeping grazing lands supporting cattle, sheep, and goats. The region experiences an arid to semi-arid climate characterized by hot, dry conditions and very low average annual rainfall of approximately 276mm. Soils across these western plains typically consist of red sandy earths, desert loams, and hard red clay-loams.

Since its inception, the project has undergone multiple registry variations. Most notably, certain land parcels were removed from the original project area in November 2018, and its methodology was formally transitioned to Compilation No. 3 in September 2023. Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) generated by this project have been reliably utilized by major corporate entities to meet their sustainability targets; for instance, the project's carbon credits were acquired and surrendered in corporate offset strategies for both Cognizant's 2022 Climate Action Report and the Barangaroo Precinct's Carbon Neutral Public Disclosure in Sydney.