Plans Afoot for Australia’s First Blue Carbon Farm

Australia’s first blue carbon farm is coming to Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, set to create a sprawling mangrove ecosystem on the lower Maroochy River floodplain at Yandina. The operation aims to restore the river’s ecosystem, encouraging seagrasses, tidal marshes, and mangroves to thrive and generating carbon credits which can be sold or used towards net-zero targets. Coastal blue carbon is the carbon captured by living coastal and marine organisms and stored in coastal ecosystems. Sunshine Coast Council, who has partnered with Unitywater on the project, is aiming to go carbon-free by 2041. Work will involve introducing tidal waters into two council-owned sites totalling 165 hectares....