North Queensland Conservation Initiative Site #2. (Revoked)

North Queensland Conservation Initiative Site #2 (Revoked) was a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located approximately 20km south-east of the historic gold-mining town of Ravenswood, and roughly 90km east of Charters Towers in North Queensland. Registered in November 2020, the project covered a substantial area of 47,339 hectares on a property identified as Lot 3 on SP268346 (6218 Burdekin Falls Dam Road). The project was voluntarily revoked from the scheme on December 1, 2025. The proponent, Terra Carbon Pty Limited, is a subsidiary of the major environmental markets developer GreenCollar.

The project operated under the Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) methodology. This method requires landholders to cease suppression activities, such as mechanical clearing or unmanaged grazing, to allow native forests to regenerate naturally from in-situ seed sources like rootstock and lignotubers. Unlike tree planting projects, HIR focuses on land management changes, such as installing new fencing to control livestock movement and managing feral animals, to facilitate the return of permanent native forest cover.

The Ravenswood region is part of the Burdekin Dry Tropics, an area predominantly used for cattle grazing and mining. The environment is characterized by a semi-arid climate with distinct wet and dry seasons, typically receiving between 600mm and 700mm of rainfall annually. The landscape features open woodlands and grassy plains, with soils that vary from red earths and sandy loams on ridges to heavier clays in the creek flats. The revocation of this project (and the associated Site #1) under section 30 of the CFI Rule suggests a voluntary cancellation, often undertaken to facilitate a change in project boundaries, methodology, or property ownership, rather than a compliance enforcement action.