Landari Uplands 2 2022

Landari Uplands 2 2022 is a Plantation Forestry project located in the Northern Midlands region of Tasmania, roughly 30km southeast of Launceston. It was registered on December 20, 2023, and initially covered an area of 322.31 hectares. A variation was later made to the project area on June 19, 2024, successfully incorporating additional land into the project.

Projects structured under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative, Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022 earn Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) by undertaking specific forestry activities, such as establishing new plantations, converting short-rotation plantations to long-rotation ones, or avoiding the clearing of an existing forest. Specifically, this project involves the "avoided conversion of a plantation to non-forested land". Rather than allowing an existing or recently harvested plantation to be permanently converted to viable agricultural land, this project establishes and maintains a new commercial plantation cycle to sequester carbon in both the growing trees and the harvested wood products.

The Northern Midlands region is well-known for its extensive sheep and cattle grazing (particularly fine wool production), crop growing (such as cereals, peas, and poppies), and timber production. Environmentally, the area sits in the rain shadow of the Great Western Tiers, making it one of the lower-rainfall regions in Tasmania, typically receiving a temperate 600mm to 1000mm of annual rainfall. The local soils are highly diverse, often dominated by sandy profiles along with fertile alluvial flats and pockets of Tertiary basalt.

The proponent, Landari Pty Ltd, is a prominent private developer of carbon offset and biodiversity projects in Australia. They manage numerous plantation and forestry operations across Tasmania, successfully operating dozens of ACCU projects under the Clean Energy Regulator.