Bareeda Regeneration Project

Bareeda Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located approximately 100km south of Winton in outback Queensland. It was registered in November 2017 and covers an extensive area of 83,755.90 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve making changes to land management practices to allow native vegetation to regenerate and form a continuous forest. Standard requirements for this methodology dictate that the regenerating vegetation must have the potential to achieve at least a 20% forest canopy cover and a height of at least 2 metres. The specific activities for Bareeda involve managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing to allow permanent native forests to naturally regenerate from in-situ seed sources, rootstock, and lignotubers on land that had been previously cleared and where regrowth was suppressed for at least 10 years.

The Winton region is widely known for large-scale cattle and sheep grazing operations. The regional environment is classified as semi-arid, experiencing hot temperatures and low, highly variable rainfall. The project is situated within the Mitchell Grass Downs bioregion, an area typically dominated by deep, heavy cracking clay soils (vertosols), interspersed with some sandy loam and stony ridges.

This project was established to enable sustainable grazing for the long term while simultaneously improving drought resilience across the property. It maintains a strong profile in the Australian carbon market; in early 2025, the project was recorded issuing 52,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) over a single month, making it the highest generating individual project during that issuance period. Furthermore, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has previously purchased offsets from this project to support their organisational Reconciliation Action Plan, highlighting the project's alignment with providing First Nations co-benefits.