Avoided plantation conversion project on permanent timber production zone land in Tasmania

Avoided plantation conversion project on permanent timber production zone land in Tasmania is a plantation forestry project located across multiple parcels in Tasmania's North West and Southern regions, spanning areas inland from Burnie, Devonport, Smithton, and Huonville. It was registered in July 2025 and covers 232.97 Ha.

Plantation forestry projects involve generating carbon abatement by establishing new plantation forests, converting short-rotation to long-rotation crops, or avoiding the conversion of plantation land to non-forested land. Under this methodology, standard requirements dictate that the project area must be maintained as a plantation forest intended for the commercial harvesting of wood products.

The North West and Southern regions of Tasmania are well known for their extensive commercial forestry operations (both native and plantation timber) alongside agricultural uses such as dairy and beef cattle farming. The area is considered a high rainfall zone, and the underlying soils are typically highly productive red basalt (ferrosols), clay loams, and podzols.

This project was set up to sequester carbon by explicitly avoiding the conversion of an existing or harvested plantation to non-forested land, instead establishing and maintaining a new plantation forest. The proponent, Forestry Tasmania (now trading as Sustainable Timber Tasmania), uses the FullCAM 2016 model to estimate carbon abatement and has nominated a 25-year permanence period for the project. The project has successfully commenced crediting, having been issued 2,310 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to date.