Mainoru Savanna Burning Project

Mainoru Savanna Burning Project is a savanna fire management project located at Mainoru Station, approximately 250km northeast of Katherine in the Northern Territory. It was registered in September 2015 and covers an area of 132,311.40 hectares.

Savanna fire management projects involve the strategic and planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season. This reduces the available fuel load and mitigates the risk, intensity, and frequency of larger, high-emission wildfires occurring in the late dry season.

The Mainoru Station area is primarily known for cattle grazing and pastoral operations. The environment features a tropical savanna climate that transitions between high and low rainfall zones, typically receiving between 950mm and 1,042mm of rain annually during the monsoonal wet season. Soils in the region include sandy red earths, rocky terrain, and fertile river levee soils along the local riverways.

This project was established to reduce the effect of uncontrolled wildfires while creating an alternative revenue stream through carbon farming. Since its inception, it has undergone variations to expand its project area and update its methodology to the 2015 determination. The Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) generated by the project have been actively purchased by major corporations, including IFM Investors and Asahi Beverages, to meet their voluntary emissions reduction targets.