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Fish River Fire Project as a springboard

The Fish River Fire Project sold its second tranche of Australian Carbon Credit Units to Caltex Australia in 2013–14. Expertise accrued by the ILC was shared with the four savanna-burning projects in the north Kimberley and the Jawoyn Fire Project, which were approved and issued with their first tranche of credits. The Clean Energy Regulator, responsible for approving projects and issuing credits, visited the Fish River Fire Project to experience early dry season burning and understand the practical issues of savanna burning.

The expansion funded by the ILC, the Nature Conservancy and the Department of the Environment of the existing savanna burning Carbon Farming Initiative methodology, for which the Fish River Fire Project provided proof of concept, has the potential to expand the potential for carbon credit generation on Indigenous held land by hundreds of thousands annually.

Figure 5: Approved Savanna Burning Carbon Farming Initiative Projects at 10 July 2014