Upper Allyn Forestry Project

Upper Allyn Forestry Project is a plantation forestry project located at Upper Allyn, approximately 40km northwest of Dungog and 77km north of Newcastle in the Hunter Region of New South Wales. It sits just south of the Barrington Tops National Park. The project was registered in June 2024 and covers an area of 27.96 hectares.

Plantation forestry projects of this specific type, operating under the Plantation Forestry Methodology Determination 2022, involve transitioning an existing short-rotation plantation forest into a permanent planting. This methodology allows projects to earn carbon credits by maintaining a permanent forest canopy in situations where the plantation was otherwise at risk of being harvested, cleared, or converted into non-forested agricultural land.

The Upper Allyn and wider Barrington Tops area is a high-rainfall environment that supports dense subtropical and cool temperate rainforests. The region's topography is steep and deeply intersected, featuring deep, fertile soils that are predominantly basalt-derived krasnozems (red volcanic soils) and red or yellow podsolics. Regional land use consists largely of native forestry operations in state forests, national park conservation, and dairy or beef cattle grazing in the lower river valleys.

The project is managed by Carbon Fix Pty Limited and utilizes the FullCAM 2016 model to estimate carbon sequestration. By preserving the trees permanently, the project not only locks in stored carbon but also supports the surrounding ecosystem, which acts as a buffer to the highly biodiverse Barrington Tops, an area famous for its ancient Gondwanan rainforest links and unique native fauna.