Coalara Park Australian Sandalwood Plantation Project

Coalara Park Australian Sandalwood Plantation Project is a Plantation Forestry project located near Badgingarra, approximately 205km north of Perth in Western Australia's Dandaragan local government area. It was registered in June 2021 and covers a project area of 2335.73 hectares.

Plantation forestry projects involve sequestering carbon by establishing and maintaining a new plantation forest for the commercial harvesting of wood products. A standard requirement for new plantations under the 2022 method is that the land must not have been a native forest or a plantation forest in the preceding seven years.

The Badgingarra area is well known for mixed agricultural enterprises, particularly sheep and cattle grazing as well as broadacre winter cropping. The environment is considered a moderate rainfall region, experiencing an average annual rainfall of around 518 mm. The soils across the project area vary, typically consisting of red loams, strong gravels, and pale to yellow sands.

An interesting fact about this project is that the underlying 4,422-hectare property, "Coalara Park", was sold in early 2021 to a corporate interest specifically to convert parts of the agricultural land into a sandalwood plantation for carbon markets. The project transitioned to the updated 2022 methodology in August 2022, and in July 2025, a variation was made to remove some areas from the project footprint. Additionally, public records show that Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) generated from this project have been utilised by corporate entities, such as the TSA Group, to support their carbon-neutral certification under the Climate Active program.