Jumbuck Pastoral Savanna Burning Project (Revoked)

Jumbuck Pastoral Savanna Burning Project (Revoked) is a savanna burning project located across two distinct pastoral leases, including Blina Station approximately 100km east of Derby in Western Australia and Killarney Station approximately 280km southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory. It was registered on April 15, 2016, and covers a massive 1,419,957.94 hectares.

Savanna fire management projects involve undertaking strategic and planned burning of savanna areas during the early dry season to reduce the risk and severity of late dry season wildfires. The methodology standard requirements dictate that project proponents must map vegetation and fire scars, and strictly conduct their burn activities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (methane and nitrous oxide) within designated low or high rainfall zones.

The regional land use across both properties is predominantly large-scale commercial cattle grazing. Both regions experience a semi-arid tropical savanna climate characterized by a distinct wet and dry season, specifically falling within the methodology's low rainfall zone of 600 to 1000mm annually. Soils across these extensive pastoral stations generally consist of cracking clays (vertosols), red sandy loams, and alluvial floodplains.

An interesting note about this project is that the proponent, Commonwealth Hill Proprietary Limited, is a subsidiary of the prominent MacLachlan family's Jumbuck Pastoral Company. Furthermore, this project was voluntarily revoked under section 33 of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 on March 8, 2017.