Greening Australia and Canopy Nature Based Solutions: WA Restoration Program 2025

Greening Australia and Canopy Nature Based Solutions: WA Restoration Program 2025 is an environmental planting project located across multiple sites in the Donnybrook-Balingup, Wandering, Kent, and Jerramungup local government areas, ranging from approximately 130km to 300km southeast of Perth. It was registered in May 2025 and covers 6,401.97 ha.

Environmental planting projects involve planting native trees and shrubs at a density of at least 200 stems per hectare to establish permanent forest cover and carbon sequestration on previously cleared land.

The land use across these expansive regions includes a mix of broadacre cropping (such as wheat and canola), sheep grazing, and horticulture. Because the project spans multiple distinct regions, the environmental conditions vary significantly; the western sites near Donnybrook experience high winter rainfall and generally feature gravelly lateritic soils, while the eastern sites near Jerramungup sit within medium to semi-arid rainfall zones characterized by sandy loam and duplex soils.

This project was set up not just for carbon capture, but to prioritize true ecological restoration. Managed by Canopy Nature Based Solutions (a specialized environmental credit subsidiary of Greening Australia), the initiative mandates that the permanent plantings reflect the exact structure and composition of the local native vegetation community. The project operates under a 25-year permanence period and will run until 2050.