Yuinmery Station Regeneration Project

Yuinmery Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located at Yuinmery Station, approximately 69km southwest of Sandstone in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It was registered in March 2022 and covers 124,829.39 ha.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent even-aged native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers. Standard requirements for this methodology dictate that the land must have been previously cleared of vegetation and had regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years.

The Sandstone area and wider Murchison region are primarily known for extensive pastoral grazing alongside widespread mineral exploration, notably copper and gold mining. The environment is classified as semi-arid, experiencing a low average annual rainfall of around 200mm. The region features broad valleys and weathered greenstone formations associated with the Archaean Youanmi greenstone belt, typically yielding calcrete and red loam or clay soils.

The project is managed by David Lefroy in partnership with Select Carbon Pty Ltd. The Lefroy family has held the Yuinmery Station lease since 1917. While historically focused on sheep and wool production, the station transitioned entirely to cattle operations in 2009 after severe wild dog and dingo predation made sheep farming unsustainable, requiring the removal of 400km of sheep fencing. Project activities revolve around the careful management of the timing and extent of this cattle grazing to remove suppression pressures and allow native trees to regenerate. In May 2022, a minor variation was applied to the project to remove certain areas. Interestingly, the station is also biologically notable as the location where a minute desert bat species, Vespadelus baverstocki, was first discovered and described from a collected specimen. To date, this carbon project has been issued over 35,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).