Woolibar Station

Woolibar Station is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located approximately 30 kilometers south of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Registered in September 2021, the project spans a significant area of 77,309 hectares on a pastoral lease historically used for cattle grazing. The property sits within the vicinity of the "Great Western Woodlands," an internationally significant area of temperate woodland in a semi-arid environment.

The project operates under the Human-Induced Regeneration methodology, which credits carbon stored by regenerating native forests on land where vegetation has been suppressed for at least 10 years. In this specific context, the primary activity involves managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing to allow native vegetation, typically Acacia (Mulga) and Eucalypt woodlands, to recover and reach forest potential. To generate credits, the regenerating forest must progress toward a canopy cover of at least 20% and a height of two meters.

Environmentally, the region is characterized by a semi-arid to arid climate with low, variable rainfall averaging roughly 260mm annually. The terrain typically consists of red earths, calcareous loams, and clay soils derived from the underlying greenstone and granite geology typical of the Yilgarn Craton. The project area likely overlaps with active or historical mining tenements, a common feature of pastoral leases in the Goldfields near Kalgoorlie. Notably, the project underwent a name change in September 2024 (previously "AIC HIR WA2 WS") and a boundary variation in late 2023 to remove specific areas from the project.