What is a Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) project?

HIR projects are the most common vegetation carbon projects undertaken by landholders across Australia. The project focuses on changing land management practices, which helps regenerate vegetation. This improves the natural capital on which the business is based by storing carbon, but it can also diversify revenue streams through the sales of the resultant carbon credits.

The change in management activities is designed to ensure the regeneration attains forest cover, defined as a species mix with the ability to reach at least 2m tall and at least 20 percent canopy cover, assessed at a scale of 0.2 hectares.

RegenCo’s HIR projects run alongside existing enterprise management plans.