Meeline Station Regeneration Project

Meeline Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located at Meeline Station, approximately 50km from the town of Mount Magnet and 650km northeast of Perth in Western Australia. It was registered in July 2019 and covers a vast area of 168,009.05 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers. For this methodology to be applied, the land must have been cleared of vegetation and regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project's commencement. The primary activity for the Meeline Station project is the management of the timing and the extent of grazing to allow native vegetation to recover.

The Mount Magnet region is traditionally used for large-scale sheep raising and pastoral grazing. The environment is considered semi-arid, receiving very low and sporadic rainfall averaging around 200mm (8 inches) per year. The soils in this desolate landscape are typically clay-loam exposed by eroded laterite, frequently covered with quartz rocks.

Interestingly, Meeline Station was historically famous for its incredibly dark skies and hosted the Murdoch Astronomical Society's 'Meeline Astrocamps' throughout the 1990s. More recently, in early 2026, the Australian non-profit Forever Wild Initiative acquired Meeline Station as part of a multi-million dollar nature finance investment. The acquisition joins Meeline with adjacent properties like Narndee, Boodanoo, and Challa, connecting three State Reserves to protect over 12,000 square kilometres of land under a low-impact conservation grazing model. The carbon project itself has successfully generated over 37,200 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to date.