Pinnacles Regeneration Project

Pinnacles Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located at Pinnacles Station, approximately 116km northwest of Leonora and 40km southwest of Leinster in Western Australia's Goldfields region. It was registered in May 2018 and covers a vast 213,252.29 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects involve changing land management practices to allow native vegetation to naturally regenerate from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers, to ultimately achieve a permanent forest cover. This specific methodology requires that the land was previously cleared of vegetation and that regrowth had been suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project commencing.

The Goldfields region of Western Australia is a semi-arid environment, known primarily for pastoralism, such as cattle and sheep grazing, and mining operations. The area experiences low and highly unreliable annual rainfall, averaging around 229mm near Leonora to 245mm near Leinster. The local environment features elevated rocky greenstone ridges, granite and sandplain areas, and drainage lines that support mulga, mixed eucalypt scrub, and spinifex hummock grasslands.

This project establishes permanent native forests by managing the timing and the extent of grazing to allow assisted regeneration. To date, the project has successfully generated over 80,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs). Interestingly, in July 2025, the project proponent was transferred from Helen Dunbar and Craig Harvey to Laststar Investments Pty Ltd as trustee for the Craig Harvey Family trust, which followed a variation to the project area bounds in June 2024. The project also holds an active fixed-delivery carbon abatement contract (CAC193849) for 15,000 ACCUs with the Commonwealth.