Western Top End Area C (Revoked)

Western Top End Area C is a savanna fire management project located in the Victoria-Daly region approximately 140km southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory. It was registered in October 2015 and covers an extensive 212,284.47 hectares.

Savanna fire management projects involve the strategic, planned burning of savanna woodlands during the early dry season. This process reduces available fuel loads in a controlled manner, which significantly minimizes the risk, size, and intensity of destructive late dry season wildfires. By mitigating these large-scale fires, the project achieves a measurable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

The Victoria-Daly region is heavily utilized for large-scale cattle grazing and pastoral farming. The environment features a monsoonal tropical savanna climate with distinct wet and dry seasons, spanning both high and low rainfall classifications. The regional soils are typical of the Top End, predominantly consisting of lateritic sandy loams and cracking clays.

Interestingly, this project was successfully contracted under the government's fixed delivery scheme (Contract CAC102600), delivering its fully committed volume of 24,000 ACCUs to the Commonwealth. Despite fulfilling this contract, the project was officially revoked in April 2018 under Section 30 of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Rule. The proponent, James Benjamin Lewis, is an active participant in the region's carbon abatement space, managing several other local savanna burning projects such as the Banbansprings and Western Top End Area A projects.