DAC-2015-14

DAC-2015-14 is a Native Forest from Managed Regrowth project located approximately 80km southeast of Charleville in the Murweh Shire of South West Queensland. It was registered in September 2015 by Devine Agribusiness Carbon Pty Ltd and covers an area of 5,607.73 hectares.

Native Forest from Managed Regrowth projects involve allowing native vegetation to regenerate into a permanent native forest by ceasing activities that suppress or destroy regrowth, such as mechanical clearing or chemical spraying. Standard methodology requirements dictate that the project area must have previously been subjected to at least one comprehensive clearing for pastoral use and must have the potential to achieve forest cover, which is defined as reaching a minimum of 20% crown cover and trees of at least 2 metres in height.

The Charleville region is historically known for extensive pastoral operations, primarily beef cattle and sheep grazing. The area features a semi-arid climate with low, highly variable rainfall averaging around 400 to 500mm annually, and the soils largely consist of red earths, sandy loams, and clays characteristic of the Mulga Lands bioregion.

This project establishes permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources, including rootstock and lignotubers, on land that was historically subjected to at least one comprehensive clearing for pastoral use. Interestingly, the project secured an active fixed-delivery Commonwealth carbon abatement contract (CAC102396), which originally committed 121,500 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), with 95,702 ACCUs successfully delivered to the Commonwealth to date. Additionally, the project's proponent, Devine Agribusiness Carbon Pty Ltd, was acquired by major environmental markets investor GreenCollar in July 2021, marking a strategic consolidation of carbon farming assets within the broader Australian market.