Yoweragabbie Station Regeneration Project

Yoweragabbie Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located at Yoweragabbie Station, approximately 28km southwest of Mount Magnet in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It was registered in May 2018 and covers a vast 105,568.60 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects involve establishing permanent, even-aged native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers. This method requires the land to have been cleared of vegetation and regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project commencing. To achieve this regeneration, standard requirements involve altering land management practices to relieve suppression pressures; for this project, activities include managing the timing and extent of grazing, as well as the humane management of feral animals.

The Mount Magnet area and the broader Murchison bioregion are traditionally known for extensive pastoralism, primarily sheep and cattle grazing, alongside significant mining operations. The environment features an arid to semi-arid climate with predominantly winter rainfall. The region's landscapes comprise flat colluvium plains and low hills, with soils generally consisting of red sandy earths, loams, and red-brown hardpan shallow loams. The local vegetation is predominantly mulga (Acacia aneura) low-woodlands.

Yoweragabbie itself has a long agricultural history, having existed as a pastoral lease since 1880. The carbon project is managed by proponent Jorgen Lawn Jensen, with Select Carbon Pty Ltd acting as the project agent. It holds an active Fixed Delivery Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC929626) with the Clean Energy Regulator, under which it has successfully delivered over 69,000 of its originally committed 117,676 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Commonwealth. Variations were made to the project area in July 2020 and April 2021 to remove specific listed portions of land. Notably, separate biomass characterisation studies conducted across the Murchison bioregion have highlighted Yoweragabbie Station for its excellent carbon sequestration potential, measuring up to 22 tonnes of carbon per hectare within its mulga-dominated systems.