Case Studies

Richard and Shirley Wilson, along with their son Jed and his partner Stacey, took over Yancannia, in the Far West region of New South Wales, around nine years ago. As a result of drought, heavy domestic grazing and a large local kangaroo population, the plains on the Yancannia property had long been in poor condition.

In 2017, Ben and Paula Bartlett began a carbon project at Gardenvale near Wanaaring, New South Wales. Their aim was to manage the country for better environmental, economic and social outcomes. 

Once an overgrazed and degraded landscape, Lowan Station, near Cobar in New South Wales, has transformed under the management of John and Donna Cutting into a thriving sheep and cattle enterprise that also boasts a biodiverse and sustainable forest.

On the edge of the Cobar Peneplain around 50km west of Cobar, Boonora Downs has been home to Heath and Natalie Cull since 2009. The Culls run a successful grazing enterprise on the land, which is dominated by undulating mulga ridges with large areas of creek and flood country.

Situated on Malgana Country near Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, this project aims to regenerate over 172,000 hectares of native vegetation that had previously been suppressed through intensive grazing.

Tropical savannas across northern Australia are some of the most intact and biodiverse landscapes in Australia, encompassing areas of significant global biodiversity. Within its 145,570 hectares, Southwell Station holds 32 hectares of threatened regional ecosystems – home to one Federally listed and two State listed threatened fauna species, and one State listed threatened flora species.

In 2019, when Marc and Jo Griffiths took over Noona Station in Cobar, New South Wales, it already had an established carbon project. At the time, the pair had little knowledge of carbon farming and sequestration but they came in with open minds.

Andrew and Tayna Greensheilds don’t regard the changes they had to make to incorporate a carbon project into their enterprise as significant, but they do think it made them examine their land management much more closely.

Situated north-west of Bourke, New South Wales, Maureenjoy is home to a successful family-run cattle grazing business. As is characteristic of the Mulga Lands Bioregion, the land at Maureenjoy consists of undulating soft red loamy soils and stony Mulga ridges. When the current landholders took over in 2008, it was overrun with feral goats, placing significant grazing pressure on the native vegetation and suppressing its growth.