Darling River Eco Corridor #36

Darling River Eco Corridor #36 is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located approximately 40km south of Wanaaring, and roughly 180 to 200km west of the major regional center of Bourke in outback New South Wales. Registered in May 2018, this large-scale project covers an extensive area of 57,164 hectares across a remote agricultural region typically utilized for extensive cattle, sheep, and goat grazing.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects aim to establish permanent native forests through assisted regeneration on land where vegetation was previously cleared and regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years. Standard methodology requirements involve halting or minimizing these suppressive activities, such as actively managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing and humanely controlling feral animals, to allow in-situ seed sources, including rootstocks and lignotubers, to successfully regenerate into a native forest canopy.

The environment in the Wanaaring region is characterized by a harsh, semi-arid to arid climate experiencing very hot summers and low average annual rainfall, typically ranging from 276mm to 370mm. The soils across the area generally consist of neutral red earths, sandy loams, clay, and siliceous gravelly plains.

This project is part of a broader suite of "Darling River Eco Corridor" initiatives managed by Terra Carbon, which is a subsidiary of GreenCollar. These combined projects span over 150,000 hectares across north-western New South Wales and south-western Queensland. By establishing alternative income streams through carbon farming, local landholders and graziers are able to improve vital property infrastructure, such as fencing and trap yards used for managing feral animals, thereby reducing their reliance on traditional grazing in drought-prone conditions while actively regenerating fragile ecosystems in the upper catchments of the Darling River.