DAC-2015-14

DAC-2015-14 is a Native Forest from Managed Regrowth project located approximately 80km southeast of Charleville in South West Queensland. It was registered in September 2015 and covers 5,607.73 ha.

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, typically 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 typically averaging 400-500mm annually, and soils largely consist of red earths, sandy loams, and clays characteristic of the Mulga Lands bioregion.

For this project, the core activity is the cessation of mechanical or chemical destruction, or suppression, of regrowth. This project establishes permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources (including rootstock and lignotubers) on land that was subject to at least one comprehensive clearing for pastoral use. The project's proponent, Devine Agribusiness Carbon Pty Ltd, holds an active fixed-delivery Commonwealth carbon abatement contract (CAC102396) for this project, which originally committed 121,500 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs). Over 95,000 of these ACCUs have been successfully delivered to the Commonwealth. Additionally, Devine Agribusiness Carbon was acquired by major environmental markets investor GreenCollar in July 2021, marking a consolidation of carbon farming assets in the region.