FIT WA 2026 Carbon Project

FIT WA 2026 Carbon Project is a plantation forestry project located across multiple sites in the Great Southern and South West regions of Western Australia, including properties near major regional towns such as Boyup Brook and Albany, roughly 270km and 420km south-east of Perth respectively. It was registered in September 2025 and covers an unknown total area, though a project variation in July 2026 added more land parcels to the project.

Plantation forestry projects operating under the 2022 methodology involve establishing new plantation forests, converting short-rotation to long-rotation plantations, or maintaining pre-existing plantations. The standard requirements dictate that these forests must be actively managed and intended for the commercial harvesting of wood products.

The Great Southern and South West areas of Western Australia are heavily utilized for mixed farming (such as sheep and cattle grazing), broadacre cropping, and significant commercial hardwood and softwood forestry operations. The region generally experiences a Mediterranean climate with moderate to high winter rainfall, and the soils are typically composed of lateritic podzols, gravelly loams, and sandy duplex soils.

This project sequesters carbon by establishing and maintaining a new plantation forest as well as converting an existing short-rotation plantation to a long-rotation one. Interestingly, the project's agent, PF Olsen Australia, manages the Forestry Investment Trust properties and partners with Birdlife Australia to monitor avian diversity. Long-term surveys across their Western Australian hardwood plantations have recorded over 70 bird species, demonstrating that these commercial forests act as important habitat refuges for wildlife in fragmented landscapes.