Pungalina Seven Emu Carbon Abatement (Revoked)

Pungalina Seven Emu Carbon Abatement is a Savanna Fire Management project located at the Pungalina-Seven Emu Wildlife Sanctuary, approximately 100km east-southeast of Borroloola in the Northern Territory. Registered in February 2016, the project originally covered a vast 194,849.28 hectares. The Gulf of Carpentaria region has historically been utilized for pastoral cattle grazing, but under a landmark agreement, large tracts of this project area had cattle excluded to focus entirely on conservation. The local environment falls into the methodology's low rainfall zone, receiving an average of 975mm annually, and is characterized by sandy soils, sandstone escarpments, coastal monsoon rainforests, and wetlands.

Savanna Fire Management projects generate carbon credits by implementing strategic, planned burning during the early dry season. By deliberately burning small patches of savanna, a mosaic of burnt and unburnt country is created. This drastically reduces the fuel load, which lowers the frequency, extent, and intensity of highly destructive, late dry season wildfires, ultimately reducing methane and nitrous oxide emissions.

This project is particularly notable as it helped support the first private nature reserve in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The sanctuary was formed through a unique partnership between the project proponent, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC), and Frank Shadforth, an Indigenous landowner from the Garawa people who subleased his family's land for the initiative. The project's registered area underwent a variation in May 2017 to remove certain portions of land before ultimately being revoked in March 2026 under section 30 of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Rule.