Prince Regent NP - Savanna Burning Project

Prince Regent NP - Savanna Burning Project is a Savanna Fire Management project located at the Prince Regent National Park in the remote Kimberley region, northeast of Broome in Western Australia. It was registered in April 2016 and covers an expansive 576,379.43 hectares. The region is deeply significant to traditional Aboriginal owners, and the area's primary land uses are protected wilderness and conservation.

Savanna burning projects in high rainfall areas involve the strategic, planned burning of savanna zones during the early dry season. This methodology safely reduces accumulated fuel loads, mitigating the risk and severity of uncontrolled late dry season wildfires and lowering overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The project operates in a tropical monsoon climate defined as a high rainfall zone. The environment is rugged and is characterised by deep gorges, terraced cascading waterfalls, ancient sandstone plateaus, and volcanic rock with shallow, sandy and lateritic soils.

Prince Regent National Park is exceptionally remote and accessible almost exclusively by air or boat. Nominated as a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve in 1978, the park is an extraordinary biodiversity hotspot harbouring over 500 vascular plant species and more than half of all mammal and bird species found in the Kimberley region. The carbon project itself has completed multiple Commonwealth carbon abatement contracts since its inception and is now solely managed by the Conservation and Land Management Executive Body.