Lenah2025R_Styx_S3

Lenah2025R_Styx_S3 is a Plantation Forestry carbon project located in the renowned Styx Valley of Tasmania, approximately 15km west of New Norfolk and 50km northwest of Hobart. Registered on August 22, 2025, the project covers roughly 142 hectares of commercial timber land. The site is situated within the broader Lenah Estate, a significant forestry asset formerly owned by Norske Skog and now held by New Forests' Australia New Zealand Forest Fund 3.

The project operates under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative, Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022. Specifically, it involves the "avoided conversion" activity. This classification is used when a plantation owner demonstrates a viable plan to convert harvested plantation land into non-forested use, typically agriculture like grazing or cropping, but instead commits to re-establishing and maintaining the plantation forest. By doing so, the project generates credits for the carbon stored in the trees that would otherwise have been removed and replaced by lower-carbon land uses.

Environmentally, the Styx Valley region is characterized by high rainfall (often exceeding 1,000mm annually) and fertile, wet clay-loam soils. These conditions are historically famous for supporting some of the world's tallest hardwood trees (Eucalyptus regnans) but are also highly productive for the radiata pine softwood plantations managed by the proponent.

The project is managed by SFM Environmental Solutions, a Tasmanian-based company that oversees the Lenah Estate's 27,000+ hectares. Interesting operational details include the estate's integration with the local timber economy, supplying the Norske Boyer mill, and SFM's use of advanced "Firehawk" camera technology for early bushfire detection across the plantation assets.