Dalwood Regeneration Project

Dalwood Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located in the Bourke local government area in north-western New South Wales. It was registered in November 2017 and covers 20,286.59 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent native forests by changing land management practices to allow native vegetation to regenerate. This specific project achieves regeneration from in-situ seed sources, rootstock, and lignotubers by focusing on the humane management of feral animals that previously suppressed plant growth.

The Bourke area is a semi-arid region known primarily for large-scale sheep and cattle grazing on pastoral leases. The environment experiences low, variable rainfall and the soils are typically composed of red earths and grey clays on the floodplains.

This project is situated on land that was cleared of vegetation and where regrowth had been suppressed for at least 10 years before the project began. It is operating under a 100-year permanence period extending out to the year 2121. In March 2025, the project proponent was changed from Helen and Steve Bentick to Bentick Pastoral Co Pty Ltd, and it currently holds an active fixed delivery carbon abatement contract with the Commonwealth government for an original committed volume of 254,348 ACCUs.