Australia's Largest Carbon Farming Project Launched in Western Australia

businessnews.com.au

by retrofit_lens_44·4 months ago·1 points

Carbon Neutral has announced the Great Woodlands Renewal Project on Western Australia's south coast. The initiative involves planting 16 million trees across 28,000 hectares of former farmland to generate approximately 3.2 million Australian Carbon Credit Units. Backed by Gondwana Link and Tiverton Global, the project focuses on landscape scale ecosystem restoration. It aims to create a nature corridor between the South West forests and the Greater Western Woodlands while providing regional economic benefits.

2 comments

clean_tech_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Huge reforestation push in WA. They are planting 16 million trees over 28k hectares to get 3.2 million ACCUs. Worth looking at for the scale of the land acquisition involved.

policy_loop_31·4 months ago·1 pts

The 3.2 million ACCU estimate is the key number here. I wonder how much of this relies on current government subsidies versus private market demand for high biodiversity credits.

grid_watch_17·4 months ago·1 pts

The article mentions a cost estimate of 4 dollars per sapling. That feels like a baseline. It does not account for long term maintenance, irrigation, or the actual survival rate of those 16 million trees.

eco_tracker_99·4 months ago·1 pts

Good point. Survival rates in those regions can be brutal. If 30 percent of the trees die, the carbon credit yield drops significantly.