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 roughly 355,483 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent, even-aged native forests by changing land management practices to encourage natural regrowth from existing in-situ seed sources, such as rootstocks and lignotubers. Standard requirements for this methodology dictate that proponents must cease activities that suppress vegetation on land where regrowth has been demonstrably suppressed for at least 10 years prior to the project commencing.

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

This project aims to foster assisted regeneration through the exclusion of livestock, the humane control of feral animals, the management of non-native plants, and careful control over the timing and extent of grazing. Meka Station itself was established as a sheep station in 1874 and continues to balance traditional pastoralism with modern carbon farming. Originally operating under the name "AIC HIR WA2 MS" by proponent AI CARBON WA NO.2 PTY LTD, the project was officially renamed to Meka Station in October 2024, following a June 2024 variation that removed certain areas from the initial project footprint. Interestingly, the broader property was recently listed for sale as a turnkey walk-in, walk-out operation that uniquely bundles its traditional livestock infrastructure with its substantial underlying carbon asset value, having generated over 154,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) in a late 2025 issuance.