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 sites in Tasmania, including areas approximately 30-40km inland from Burnie and Devonport in the North-West, and near Geeveston in the Huon Valley. It was registered in July 2025 and covers 232.97 hectares.

Plantation forestry projects involving avoided conversion generate carbon credits by preventing an existing or recently harvested plantation from being permanently cleared and converted to non-forested land, such as agriculture. Instead, the land is replanted and maintained as a new plantation forest for ongoing commercial harvesting of wood products, requiring typical commercial stocking densities to be met.

These regions of Tasmania are well known for native forestry, plantation timber, and livestock grazing. The environment across both the North-West and Southern Tasmanian sites is characterised by high annual rainfall. Soils in the North-West typically feature rich, basalt-derived red clays (ferrosols), while the southern sites predominantly feature podzols and clay loams.

This project is managed by Forestry Tasmania, a government business enterprise that now operates under the trading name Sustainable Timber Tasmania. Sustainable Timber Tasmania oversees approximately 812,000 hectares of public land known as the Permanent Timber Production Zone. By keeping this specific land actively forested rather than allowing its conversion, the project helps sustain local timber yields while simultaneously sequestering carbon and generating Australian Carbon Credit Units.