Mouroubra Station Regeneration Project

The Mouroubra Station Regeneration Project is a large-scale Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located in the Shire of Mount Marshall, Western Australia. The project area sits on the edge of the pastoral rangelands, approximately 60km south of the gold mining settlement of Paynes Find and roughly 300km northeast of Perth. Registered in November 2018, the project spans a significant area of approximately 130,566 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve implementing land management changes to facilitate the regrowth of native forest where it has been suppressed for at least ten years. Unlike environmental planting, this method does not rely on manual seeding; instead, it regenerates the land by ceasing suppression activities. For this project, activities include actively managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing and controlling feral animals to allow the in-situ seed bank (roots and lignotubers) to recover.

The region is characterized by a semi-arid climate with low rainfall, typically under 325mm annually. The landscape features "red earth" soils, sandy loams, and laterite, supporting vegetation such as Mulga shrublands, Mallee, and Acacia scrub. While the southern parts of the Shire are known for wheat cropping, Mouroubra Station itself is situated in the transition zone into the rangelands, where the primary land use is pastoral grazing.

A notable aspect of this project is the involvement of Select Carbon Pty Ltd, a leading carbon service provider that was acquired by Shell Australia in 2020 to bolster its Nature-Based Solutions business. Public records indicate that the project's Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC539957) was completed in August 2021. This suggests the project successfully delivered its contracted volume of carbon credits to the Australian Government, though it likely continues to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) for other markets.