Land Restoration Fund contracted projects
Swartz Carbon Project—R2025
Fast facts
- Location
- Calliweera Station, Morinish, Central QLD
- Sector
- Agriculture
- Investment
- $792,000
- Proponent
- AgriProve Pty Ltd
- Duration
- 15 years
- Emissions Reduction Fund project ID
- Pending
- Method
- Environmental Plantings and Soil Carbon
- Co-benefit status
Pending
- Co-benefits
- Great Barrier Reef
- Coastal Ecosystems
- Threatened Ecosystems
- Threatened Wildlife
- Native Vegetation
- Soil Health
- Employment and Skills
- Community socio-economic resilience
Project summary
The Swartz Carbon Project is a $792,000, 15-year partnership between the Queensland Government and Agriprove. The project will combine soil sequestration with environmental planting to improve the health of soil and native vegetation ecosystems at Calliweera station, near Rockhampton. Increases in soil carbon and groundcover at the project site will aid water retention and reduce runoff and erosion, benefiting the Great Barrier Reef and surrounding ecosystems and wildlife. Environmental plantings will connect remnant native vegetation and improve habitat for over 30 threatened flora and fauna species identified on the property.