Four native-title Traditional Owner corporations across 6.8 million ha of the North Kimberley run early dry-season savanna-burning carbon projects that have avoided …
Wyndham, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 5%73/100
Aboriginal-owned carbon project in western Arnhem Land: Traditional Owners apply strategic early dry-season burning over 28,000 km2 to reduce late-season wildfires, earning …
Australia's Indigenous Rangers Program funds 40+ ranger groups across northern Australia to control feral pigs, cats and invasive weeds like gamba grass; …
Piloted in 2001, Victoria's BushTender let private landholders competitively bid to manage native vegetation for public payment — a reverse-auction PES mechanism …
Melbourne, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%53/100
A seven-year, ~AUD 24-24.6M Australian/Tasmanian government programme eradicated rabbits, rats and mice from the 12,785 ha Macquarie Island by 2014; vegetation biomass …
Macquarie Island, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%53/100
Largest biodiversity credit market in Australia: 381 stewardship agreements covering 109,911 ha under NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. A$467M Stewardship Payments Fund …
Sydney, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%47/100
Since 2012, Operation Crayweed has hand-transplanted golden crayweed onto barren reefs at nine sites across 70km of Sydney's coastline; UNSW-led peer-reviewed monitoring …
Sydney, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%40/100
Under the Nature Repair Act 2023, Australia's Clean Energy Regulator runs the world's first legislated national voluntary biodiversity market. Its first project …
Built in 2005-2008 as a 232 ML/day drought-emergency network feeding recycled water to power stations, with a never-activated potable link to Wivenhoe …
Bundamba, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 96%20/100
Victoria's BushBroker native-vegetation offset scheme (386 sites, 19,000+ ha, since 2006) was independently audited and peer-reviewed in 2024: both found little evidence …