Babinda Carbon Farming Ducrot and Clyde Road

Babinda Carbon Farming Ducrot and Clyde Road is an environmental planting project located at Babinda, approximately 60km south of Cairns in Far North Queensland. It was registered in June 2026 and covers 10.35ha.

Environmental planting projects involve establishing and maintaining permanent native forests to capture carbon. These projects typically require planting trees at a density of at least 200 stems per hectare to ensure adequate long-term forest cover.

The Babinda area is primarily known for intensive sugarcane farming and banana plantations. Situated in the wet tropics, it is famously one of the wettest towns in Australia with exceptionally high annual rainfall, and the region's soils are generally highly fertile alluvial and basaltic.

This project establishes permanent plantings using a mix of native tree and shrub species that are local to the area. The species mix is specifically chosen to reflect the natural structure and composition of the local native rainforest community. Because the project is managed by the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Ltd (RRRC), the planting likely provides substantial environmental co-benefits beyond carbon sequestration, particularly in improving local water quality and reducing agricultural sediment runoff into the Great Barrier Reef catchments.