Mouroubra Station Regeneration Project

Mouroubra Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located on the Mouroubra pastoral station in the Shire of Mount Marshall, Western Australia. The project area spans approximately 130,566 hectares of the Southern Rangelands, situated roughly halfway between the wheatbelt town of Koorda and the outback settlement of Paynes Find, about 300km northeast of Perth.

Registered in November 2018, the project operates under the Human-Induced Regeneration methodology. This approach involves allowing native forests to regenerate on land where vegetation had previously been cleared or suppressed, typically for agriculture, for at least 10 years. To achieve this, the project proponent, Mathew David Rubery, implements land management changes such as controlling the timing and extent of livestock grazing and managing feral animals like wild dogs and goats to reduce pressure on regenerating vegetation.

The region sits on the transition line between the intensive agricultural wheatbelt and the pastoral outback. The environment is characterized by a semi-arid climate with low, irregular rainfall and soils that are predominantly red earth and loam, often interspersed with granite outcrops. The land has historically been used for sheep grazing. Notably, the project is supported by Select Carbon Pty Ltd (now a subsidiary of Shell Australia) and has seen overlapping interest from resource exploration companies, such as Wepner Exploration, which entered an agreement with the leaseholders in 2022 to ensure heritage and environmental preservation during their operations.