Coalara Park Australian Sandalwood Plantation Project

Coalara Park Australian Sandalwood Plantation Project is a Plantation Forestry project located in the Dandaragan local government area, situated near the town of Badgingarra and approximately 170km north of Perth in Western Australia. It was registered in June 2021 and covers a project area of 2,335.73 hectares.

Plantation Forestry projects under the ACCU scheme sequester carbon by establishing and maintaining a new plantation forest intended for the commercial harvesting of wood products. This specific project involves the establishment of a new Australian Sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) plantation.

The Dandaragan and Badgingarra region is broadly known for agricultural land uses, including sheep and cattle grazing, broadacre cropping, and commercial forestry operations. The area experiences a Mediterranean climate with moderate, winter-dominant rainfall averaging roughly 518mm annually. Environmental surveys of the region show that soils are predominantly composed of deep yellow sands, gravelly pale sands, and lateritic soils typical of the local sandplains.

Interestingly, this project underwent a methodology variation in August 2022, upgrading from the original 2017 guidelines to the newer Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative-Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022. An additional variation occurred in July 2025, which saw specific land areas formally removed from the project boundaries. The project is currently managed by Arguello Timber Pty Ltd, working alongside Corporate Carbon Advisory Pty Ltd as their agent.