AS THE heat is turned up on climate targets and demand for carbon credits appears to be increasing, a methodology used to cool down fires in the north is becoming increasingly popular.
Starting out on Indigenous land about 10-years-ago, savanna burning has become one of the highest value forms of carbon farming and featured in several property sales towards the end of last year – including the $30m purchase of Ban Ban Springs in the Northern Territory and the $12m sale of Watson River in Cape York.
The methodology is based around lighting smaller fires earlier in the dry season to…