Mt Mulgrave Savanna Burning Project

Mt Mulgrave Savanna Burning Project is a savanna fire management project located at Mt Mulgrave Station, approximately 119km north-northwest of Chillagoe and 320km northwest of Cairns in Far North Queensland. It was registered in October 2015 and currently covers an immense area of 279,869.26 hectares, following a variation in September 2016 to remove some initially listed areas from the project boundaries.

Savanna fire management projects involve conducting strategic, controlled burns during the early dry season to reduce grassy fuel loads. This standard practice mitigates the risk and severity of uncontrolled, highly emissive wildfires that typically ravage the landscape in the hotter, late dry season, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Mt Mulgrave region is known for extensive agricultural grazing, with the station itself operating as a large-scale beef cattle property owned by the Kingsley family for over four decades. The area features a tropical savanna climate with distinct monsoonal wet and dry seasons spanning both high and low rainfall zones, and the landscape includes savanna woodlands, rugged undulating hills, and fertile black soil plains (Vertosols) near river systems like the Mitchell River.

This project was set up to fight fire with fire to protect the land, native wildlife, and the cattle station's livelihood from increasingly frequent and devastating wildfires. In January 2016, a project variation formally added Corporate Carbon Solutions Pty Ltd as a proponent alongside the Kingsley family's trust. The carbon credits generated provide supplementary, drought-proof income for the station and are actively purchased on the voluntary market by corporations to offset emissions.