Kirkalocka Station Regeneration Project

Kirkalocka Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located at Kirkalocka Station, approximately 60km south of Mount Magnet in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It was registered in November 2018 and covers an area of 74,764.98ha.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent even-aged native forests through assisted regeneration. Standard requirements for this methodology dictate that the land must have been cleared of vegetation and that regrowth was suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project commencing. The primary project activity implemented at Kirkalocka is the management of the timing and extent of livestock grazing, which allows in-situ seed sources, rootstock, and lignotubers to successfully regenerate.

The Mount Magnet area is historically renowned for broadacre pastoral sheep grazing and significant gold mining operations. The region experiences an arid, desert climate with very low annual rainfall. The environmental landscape is dominated by typical outback soils including red sandy loams, laterite, ironstone, and cracking clays associated with the surrounding greenstone belts.

This project operates on a historic pastoral lease originally established in 1903, which once set a record by shearing over 18,226 sheep in 1918. The property was destocked in 2002 due to severe drought and wild dog pressures, prompting a transition into outback station tourism and environmental regeneration. A project variation occurred in October 2020 to remove certain areas from the carbon project, and in December 2021, the participant name was formally updated from Blair Allan and Jared Ridley to Breakaway Pastoral Pty Ltd.