Edah Station Regeneration Project

Edah Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located at Edah Station, approximately 50 kilometres east of Yalgoo in the Midwest region of Western Australia. It was registered in November 2018 and covers a vast 102,906.51 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve regenerating permanent, even-aged native forests by altering land management practices to remove suppressors of native vegetation. The methodology requires the regenerating native trees to have the potential to reach a height of at least 2 metres and a canopy cover of at least 20%, which is achieved by limiting or managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing.

The Yalgoo and broader Southern Rangelands area is traditionally known for extensive pastoral farming, particularly large-scale sheep grazing operations. The region is classified as semi-arid with historically low and variable rainfall. The local environment heavily features native vegetation like acacia and wattle shrubs, and the soil is predominantly characterised by red dirt, sandy loams, and granite rocky outcrops.

This project establishes permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources (including rootstock and lignotubers) on land that was cleared of vegetation and where regrowth was suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project having commenced. Interestingly, to achieve comprehensive landscape revival and combat historical soil erosion, the property owners, Toby and Angus Nichols, completely destocked the historic sheep station for several years. Furthermore, the project successfully fulfilled its Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC482288) with the Commonwealth in May 2024, delivering 9,439 Australian Carbon Credit Units.