Zeebra Plains AC Project

Zeebra Plains AC Project is an Avoided Clearing project located at Gungaloon, approximately 30km west of Maryborough in the Fraser Coast region of Queensland. It was registered in May 2022 and covers 58.77 hectares within a larger 750-hectare cattle property.

Avoided clearing of native regrowth projects involve protecting native forest on land that has historically been subject to clearing. To be eligible for this methodology, the landowner must hold the legal right to clear the land again, often referred to as Category X land under Queensland's vegetation management laws. By choosing to retain the native vegetation instead of clearing it, the project successfully avoids greenhouse gas emissions.

The Fraser Coast and wider Maryborough region is a high-rainfall coastal zone, experiencing a subtropical climate with summer-dominant rainfall averaging around 1100mm to 1166mm annually. The region's land use is primarily focused on cattle grazing, forestry operations, and sugarcane cropping. Soils in this area vary considerably but commonly feature sandy Podosols and loamy-to-clay Dermosols, which support native pastures and natural forest regrowth.

This project was established by proponents Christophe and Sylvie Bur, first-generation cattle producers who previously worked as an engineer and a management consultant in Paris. They operate "Zeebra Plains" as a regenerative, carbon-neutral beef enterprise. Beyond the Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) generated by the carbon project, the Bur family secured funding from the Queensland Government's Land Restoration Fund to deliver verifiable environmental co-benefits. These co-benefits include managing feral pigs, improving local koala habitat, and reducing sediment runoff into waterways that lead into the Great Barrier Reef catchments.