Wandina Regeneration Project

Wandina Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located at Wandina Station, approximately 65km north of Mullewa in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Registered in October 2018, the project covers a vast area of 76,387.05 hectares. The surrounding Yalgoo bioregion is well known for its extensive pastoral grazing leases and spectacular seasonal wildflower blooms. The area experiences a semi-arid climate with characteristically low rainfall, while local soils are typically red-brown clay loams, shallow gravelly sands, and laterite.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve implementing new land management practices to allow native vegetation to regenerate and establish a permanent, even-aged native forest. To meet standard methodology requirements, the land must have been previously cleared with regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project's commencement. For this specific project, the primary activity is the careful management of the timing and extent of livestock grazing. By controlling agricultural grazing pressures, in-situ seed sources, rootstocks, and lignotubers are given the opportunity to recover and permanently re-establish native forest cover.

The project has an active administrative history, operating under a Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC279888) secured in December 2018, which successfully completed its delivery requirements in January 2022. Initially registered as the Wandina Pinegrove Regeneration Project, reflecting the proponent's agricultural operations across both the Wandina and Pinegrove Stations, the project underwent a variation in April 2025 to remove certain land portions from the project area. Subsequently, the name was officially updated to the Wandina Regeneration Project in April 2026. The property itself is a 240,000-acre working pastoral station run by Loton Investments, which uniquely doubles as a popular tourist destination offering farm stays in an 80-year-old stone homestead and bush camping at a local swimming hole known as Drovers Pool. Furthermore, this project's vegetation recovery data has been actively cited in academic research evaluating the accuracy of national-scale datasets for human-induced forest regeneration sequestration.