Caringle Regeneration Project (Revoked)

The Caringle Regeneration Project (Revoked) was a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located at Caringle Station, near the small settlement of Weilmoringle in northern New South Wales. Situated approximately 70 kilometers north of Brewarrina, the project area spans over 21,300 hectares within the Culgoa River floodplain. This region is traditionally pastoral country, primarily utilized for grazing sheep and cattle on large rangeland stations.

Registered in August 2015 and voluntarily revoked in January 2018, the project operated under the Human-Induced Regeneration methodology. This method requires landholders to regenerate native forests by removing suppression activities, typically by reducing livestock grazing pressure or ceasing the clearing of vegetation. For an HIR project to be successful, the land must have "forest potential," meaning the regenerating trees are reasonably expected to reach a height of two meters and a canopy cover of 20%.

The environment in this part of the Brewarrina Shire is semi-arid, characterized by hot summers and variable rainfall. The landscape features grey cracking clay soils typical of the Culgoa floodplains, interspersed with red earths. Vegetation in the area generally consists of saltbush plains, coolabah woodlands, and pockets of native scrub which the project aimed to restore to permanent forest cover. The project was revoked under Section 30 of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015, which indicates a voluntary withdrawal by the proponents, Belinda and David Thompson, rather than a forced cancellation by the regulator.