'Coalara Park Colty Downs 2025

Coalara Park Colty Downs 2025 is a plantation forestry project located in the Dandaragan local government area, approximately 170km north of Perth in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It was registered in August 2025 and initially covered an area of 1,047 hectares, before undergoing a project area variation in July 2026 to add further land to the property.

Plantation forestry projects generate carbon credits through the establishment and maintenance of new plantation forests, or the conversion of short-rotation plantations to long-rotation forests. Standard requirements dictate that the trees must be actively managed for the commercial harvesting of wood products and planted at a stocking density sufficient to achieve a minimum height of two metres and at least 20% forest crown cover across the project area.

The Dandaragan region is well-known for its productive agricultural land, featuring lush pastures, wheat cropping, and cattle grazing on the Dandaragan Plateau. The area experiences a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and a winter-dominant mean annual rainfall of approximately 500-600mm. Regional soils typically range from leached siliceous and Bassendean sands to fertile farming soils and limestone-based calcareous sands near the coast.

This project sequesters carbon by establishing a new plantation forest explicitly for commercial timber harvesting. Notably, the project proponent is INPEX New Energy Business Australia Pty Ltd. INPEX is primarily known as a major global oil and gas exploration company, indicating that this forestry project is likely part of a broader corporate strategy to secure Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) for internal emissions offset obligations or new energy portfolio diversification.