Meka Station

Meka Station is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located at the Meka Station pastoral lease, approximately 100km north of Yalgoo and 100km west of Cue in the Murchison region of Western Australia. It was registered in October 2021 and covers 355,483.34 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent, even-aged native forests by changing land management practices to encourage natural regrowth from existing seed sources, such as rootstocks and lignotubers. Rather than actively planting trees, the standard requirements dictate that proponents must cease activities that suppress vegetation on land where regrowth has been demonstrably suppressed for at least 10 years. This is achieved through systematic changes like managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing, humane feral animal control, and active weed management.

The Murchison region is widely known for large-scale pastoral operations, primarily sheep and cattle grazing across vast, remote leases. The area features an arid to semi-arid climate with low, variable rainfall. Regional soils are characteristically arid, predominantly consisting of red sandy earths, shallow stony plains, and red-brown hardpan plains.

Meka Station itself was established as a sheep station in 1874 and continues to balance traditional pastoralism with modern carbon farming under the proponent AI CARBON WA NO.2 PTY LTD. The project holds a Commonwealth carbon abatement contract mapping out an optional delivery of 729,632 tonnes of abatement. In late 2025, the project successfully generated 154,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), making it a major contributor to the carbon market during that period. In 2024, the project was officially renamed from "AIC HIR WA2 MS" to "Meka Station", and a variation was filed to remove certain areas from the initial project footprint. The broader property has also recently been listed for sale as a turnkey walk-in, walk-out operation encompassing both its livestock infrastructure and its underlying carbon value, highlighting the growing integration of carbon projects into traditional Australian pastoral assets.