Project Information

Catchment Conservation Alliance – Southern Rivers Initiative Site 5

Human Induced Regeneration

Lantana Station sits roughly 150km south west of Charleville and was in poor condition when Carl and Judi Bain took over back in 2009. The land had been significantly overgrazed, so the Bains had work to do to bring it back to health to support their cattle grazing business.

Adding a carbon project to their enterprise in 2017 enabled the Bains to improve the property and the productivity of the land. The additional, regular income means they don’t have to push stocking numbers and can better balance healthy land with healthy profits.

The carbon money has funded large infrastructure improvements with fencing and waterpoints that enable improved livestock management and rest periods for paddocks, which then improves the health of the land. Local businesses have also benefited with most of the investment flowing through to the local community.

The Bains say the carbon project has also helped them expand their enterprise by securing more land and succession plan for the future. And they are quick to point out that none of their land has been locked up in the process. “We’re still here running a livestock enterprise and the land isn’t being locked up,” they said.

What’s more they say the country is becoming a better, stronger ecosystem as a result scattered with mulga, box and other eucalypts alongside bloodwood and Coolbah trees, yapunyah and hopbush.

Key Benefits

Carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change
Land and native vegetation regeneration
Improved land health and productivity
Stronger ecosystem
Investment in farm infrastructure including fencing and waterpoints
Improved livestock and land management
Business expansion and security
Local community investment

UN Sustainable
Development Goals

Statistics

Methodology

Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest – 1.1 Methodology Determination 2013

Registered ID

Date registered

October 2017

Project area

28,456 ha

Permanence

100yrs

Location

Charleville, QLD

Footnotes

[1] Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 Section 27
[2] Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest—1.1) Methodology Determination 2013  c3 Section 4
[3] Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest—1.1) Methodology Determination 2013  c3 Section 28
[4] Guidelines on evidence, stratification and records 8 May 2019
[5] Guidelines on evidence, stratification and records 8 May 2019
[6] Forest cover assessment date has the same meaning as that given by section 9AA(6) of the CFI Rule.
[7] Guidelines on evidence, stratification and records 8 May 2019
[8] Guidelines on evidence, stratification and records 8 May 2019
[9] Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015 Section 9AA(6)