Wilyun Pools 2022

Wilyun Pools 2022 is a plantation forestry project located near Wellstead, approximately 100km northeast of Albany in Western Australia. It was registered in May 2023 and covers a project area of 259.60 Ha. Initially developed with Carbon Neutral Pty Ltd as a key participant, the project underwent area expansions in 2024 before the primary proponent role was officially updated in February 2026 to Jarrah Climate Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Jarrah Climate Trust.

Plantation forestry projects under the 2022 methodology sequester carbon by establishing new plantations or by transitioning existing short-rotation commercial timber plantations to permanent forests. Wilyun Pools 2022 achieves this by securing an existing plantation forest and maintaining it permanently, specifically in a situation where the plantation was at risk of being harvested and converted back into non-forested agricultural land.

The Wellstead and Albany region, situated within the internationally recognised SouthWest biodiversity hotspot, is heavily utilised for broadacre agriculture, sheep grazing, and commercial blue gum plantations. The region experiences a moderate, transitional rainfall climate that bridges the wetter coastal environment and the drier inland wheatbelt. The soils in this mallee and Kwongan shrubland area are predominantly deep sands and duplex sandy gravels over clay.

Wilyun Pools 2022 is part of a larger, ambitious 1,200ha farm restoration effort that was recognised with a National Landcare Award in 2022 for successfully transforming degraded, dust-blown paddocks into thriving wildlife corridors. In an innovative step for the carbon industry, the project recently attracted roughly $6 million in blended private and philanthropic finance from Wollemi Capital and the Transition Accelerator. This investment not only funds the project's ecological restoration within the Gondwana Link, but creates a supported pathway for the traditional custodians, the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Group, to earn carbon revenue and eventually assume full ownership of their ancestral land.