Carbon Forestry Biodiverse Reforestation Project GII
The Citola Carbon Forestry Biodiverse Reforestation Project involves the biodiverse reforestation (revegetation) of the project site to expand neighbouring reserves of the native Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC) vegetation type. The project delivers carbon offsets over several vintages with additional biodiversity, native habitat and vegetation benefits. The project was designed according to the strictest assessment guidelines to test additionality, leakage and permanence and satisfy the additionality test under the Kyoto protocol. Citola consulted with local experts to select project sites that can provide excellent biodiversity benefits and enrich Victoria’s natural estate whilst maintaining maximum carbon yields.
Biodiversity Outcomes
EVC 32 - Warm Temperate Rainforest (Classified Rare) can be described as closed forest growing to 25 metres tall and occurring primarily along gullies and river flats. EVC 32 is dominated by a range of non-eucalypt canopy species above an understory of smaller trees and shrubs usually visually dominated by ferns and climbers.
EVC 15 – Limestone Box Woodland (Classified Vunerable) occurs on generally well developed terra rossa soils derived from Tertiary limestones that outcrop around coastal streams, gullies and lakes. Open eucalypt forest to 20m tall with a tall shrub layer understorey and a grass and herb-rich ground layer on sheltered aspects but may be almost completely bare on drier aspects.
EVC 18 – Riparian Forest (Classified Depleted) tall forest along river banks and associated alluvial terraces with occasional occurrences in the heads of gullies leading into creeks and rivers. The soil is fertile alluvium, regularly inundated and permanently moist. Dominated by tall eucalypts to 30m tall, but also has an open to sparse secondary tree layer of wattles and scattered dense patches of shrubs, ferns, grasses and herbs.
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