Native woodland regeneration project BIN21

Native woodland regeneration project BIN21 is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located in the Mulga Lands bioregion of South West Queensland, roughly 40km north-west of Bollon and 120km north-west of St George. It was registered in March 2022 and covers an area of 6,468.76 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects involve regenerating native forests by changing land management practices to allow native vegetation to reach forest cover, typically defined as reaching at least 20% canopy cover and 2 metres in height. For this project, regeneration is achieved by managing the timing and the extent of livestock grazing, as well as ceasing the mechanical or chemical destruction, or suppression, of regrowth.

The Mulga Lands region is predominantly known for widespread pastoral operations, mainly the grazing of sheep and cattle. The regional environment is classified as semi-arid, typically experiencing low and highly variable rainfall, and the landscape is largely characterised by flat plains with infertile sandy soils and sandy earths.

This project establishes permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources (including rootstock and lignotubers) on land that was previously cleared of vegetation and where regrowth had been suppressed for at least 10 years before the project commenced. The project is managed as part of a larger portfolio of native forest regeneration projects in the region associated with Tasman Environmental Markets (TEM) and Carbon Regeneration Pty Ltd. This portfolio has a 100-year permanence period to ensure the stored carbon is protected over the long term, and the collective group of projects has successfully issued nearly 300,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) since registration.