Nap Nap Station Landscape Project

Nap Nap Station Landscape Project is a soil carbon sequestration project located at Nap Nap Station, approximately 15km west of Maude and 70km west of Hay in the Riverina region of New South Wales. It was registered in October 2021 and covers an extensive 30,094.23 hectares.

The project operates under the 2021 Soil Carbon methodology, which involves building soil organic carbon through new or materially changed agricultural management practices, using a combination of direct soil sampling and modeling to estimate carbon sequestration.

The Lower Bidgee floodplain region around Hay and Maude is a semi-arid environment with low average rainfall. Regional land use consists heavily of merino sheep breeding, cattle grazing, and irrigated cropping such as winter cereals. The local soils often present as sodic or magnesic.

To build soil carbon, this project undertakes several specific activities, most notably introducing new irrigation to the agricultural system. The proponents are also altering grazing stocking rates and durations to promote vegetation cover, applying gypsum to remediate sodic soils, applying synthetic or non-synthetic fertiliser nutrients, and establishing permanent pastures on cropland or fallow land. In February 2026, the project updated its methodology from the older 2018 measurement-only method to the 2021 measurement and models method.

As an interesting historical note, Nap Nap Station sits on Nari Nari Country and is home to a 10,000-year-old Aboriginal burial site situated on a sand hill. It is one of the largest inland burial sites in NSW, rivaling the famous Lake Mungo in historical significance.