FPC 2018 CP1

FPC 2018 CP1 (formerly the Maringee Plantation Forestry Project) is a Plantation Forestry project located across several sites in the Shire of Boyup Brook and surrounding areas in Western Australia's South West region. The project's coordinates map to multiple separate parcels, including one situated approximately 15km southeast of Bridgetown, and another roughly 30km northeast of Boyup Brook. Registered in July 2018, the project encompasses an area of 2,549.66 hectares.

Plantation forestry projects generate carbon credits by establishing a new plantation forest, converting a short-rotation plantation to a long-rotation plantation, or maintaining a pre-existing plantation. Standard requirements include planting tree species at specific densities capable of yielding commercial timber, actively managing carbon stocks over a designated modeling period, and adhering to strict commercial harvesting and replanting regimes.

The Boyup Brook and Bridgetown regions are heavily utilized for agriculture, predominantly broadacre cropping and sheep grazing, alongside a robust commercial forestry and timber production sector. The local environment features a Mediterranean climate with an annual rainfall typically between 500mm and 700mm. Soils in this part of Western Australia generally consist of ironstone gravels, gravelly loams, and duplex soils with sandy clay gravels over medium clays, which are highly conducive to deep-rooted tree growth.

Run by the state-owned Forest Products Commission, this project sequesters carbon by establishing new plantation forests and converting existing short-rotation plantations to long-rotation cycles for the eventual commercial harvesting of wood products. Over its crediting lifetime, the project has undergone several administrative variations. Parcels of land were added in April 2020 and subsequently removed in December 2023. More recently, the project was officially renamed from the Maringee Plantation Forestry Project to FPC 2018 CP1 in September 2024, and transitioned from the 2017 method to the 2022 Plantation Forestry Methodology Determination in July 2025.