Bundure Station Forest Regeneration Project (Revoked)

Bundure Station Forest Regeneration Project (Revoked) is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located at Mount Hope, approximately 100km north of Hillston and 160km south of Cobar in New South Wales. It was registered in September 2020 and covers a vast 30,043.81 hectares within the Cobar Shire Council local government area.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent native forests by changing land management practices to allow native trees to regenerate from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers. Standard requirements dictate that the project area must eventually reach forest cover, which typically means at least 20% canopy cover and trees that are 2 metres in height. For this project, the primary activity was the humane management of feral animals on land that had been previously cleared of vegetation and where regrowth was suppressed for at least 10 years.

The Mount Hope and broader Cobar region is heavily utilised for pastoral activities, predominantly sheep and cattle grazing, alongside some dryland cropping and cultivation. The environment is classified as semi-arid, experiencing low, variable rainfall averaging around 350-400mm annually. The local landscape consists of flat to undulating plains characterised by low-fertility red earths, sandy lithosols, and Kurosols.

Interestingly, Bundure Station is a historic 74,700-acre pastoral holding that dates back to the 1800s and once featured its own railway station and wool loading platform. The carbon project was originally set up to provide a secondary income stream for the property. However, the project was revoked under section 30 of the CFI Rule on July 16, 2024, and its associated Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC645859) was subsequently terminated on September 1, 2025.