GreenCollar - Salt Lake NaturePlus™.

Fast facts.

Account ID: AU00027

Registration date: 9 December 2021
Location: West of Bourke, New South Wales
Area: 30,861 ha
Assets: Native Vegetation
Method: AfN-METHOD-NV-03
Portfolio: GreenCollar’s Paroo River Portfolio
Environmental Account Summary: In development
Information Statement: In development

GreenCollar has registered the Salt Lake NaturePlus™ and is currently in the process of developing an Environmental Account to submit for certification.

About the account.

The Salt Lake NaturePlus™ is regenerating 30,861 hectares of native forest in the Mulga Lands bioregion of New South Wales. Salt Lake Station is characterised by flat red sandy loam with a few sandy ridges. The vegetation is predominantly Mulga (Acacia anuera), Hop Bush (Dodonaea viscosa), Budda Bush (Eremophila mitchellii), Gidgee (Acacia cambagei), Leopardwood (Flindersia maculosa), Rosewood (Alectryon oleifolius), Belah (Casuarina cristata) and Eucalyptus species. The most significant wetland areas on Salt Lake Station include the Kulkyne Creek and its flood out areas, the Salt Lake Canegrass Swamp and the Kulkyne Creek Basin. These waterholes attract large numbers of waterbirds, pelicans and other fish-eating waterbirds.

Salt Lake Station overlaps with the Paroo Floodplain & Currawinya Key Biodiversity Area which is one of 333 nature hotspots currently recognised across Australia under the Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas. The property is situated just east of the Nocoleche Nature Reserve which is listed on the Register for the National Estate for the value of its wetlands. Nocoleche Nature Reserve protects a significant area of open woodlands, sandplains and a diverse range of wetland areas, including the floodplain and channels of the Paroo River. The property owners are committed to protecting the environmental values of the wetlands for their long-term sustainability.

The goal is to measure native vegetation condition and quantify change over time. Land management activities are governed by a carbon project registered with the Australian Government’s Clean Energy Regulator. The establishment of environmental accounts is intended to support ongoing management decisions that may include management of grazing, fire, pests and weeds, forest retention and infrastructure upgrades to encourage maintenance and/or improvement in the condition and extent of native vegetation.

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About GreenCollar.

GreenCollar is Australia’s largest environmental markets investor and project developer. Through development of new methodologies and markets, we work to place the environment on the balance sheet and ensure money flows to people living and working on the land who deliver environmental benefits for all.

We help farmers, graziers, traditional owners and other land managers to identify and create commercial opportunities through nature-based projects that enhance their productive agricultural enterprise while caring for the environment and delivering tangible social and economic benefits.

At the forefront of the voluntary market, GreenCollar generates new demand for high quality, high integrity ACCUs and is creating new environmental markets based on water quality, biodiversity and plastics. Everything we do is backed by science and led by the land.