Nature Repair (Replanting Native Forest and Woodland Ecosystems) Methodology Determination 2025
22Requirements for activity areas
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22 Requirements for activity areas
(1) An area of a stratification may be designated an activity area if: (a) it consists of eligible land; and (b) the project proponent proposes to carry out environmental plantings in the area as part of the replanting project. (2) An activity area must not include any 10m x 10m area of land within the area: (a) for which no environmental plantings are proposed for the purposes of the replanting project; or (b) that has forest cover; or (c) that does not have forest cover potential; or (d) that is excluded water. (3) An activity area may consist of a single contiguous area, or multiple disconnected areas. (4) Each activity area or sub-area must be at least 0.2 hectares, and the activity areas together must be at least 5 hectares. (5) Subject to subsections (6) and (7), any 900m2 section of an activity area must have an average width of at least 30m, measured on the narrowest side. (6) For the purposes of subsection (5), the project proponent may treat a group of contiguous activity areas as a single activity area. (7) If the activity area, or group of contiguous activity areas, directly adjoins: (a) inland water; or (b) native forest; or (c) an area that: (i) has been planted; and (ii) has forest cover potential; any 900m2 section of the area must have an average width of at least 10m, measured on the narrowest side. (8) The whole of an undivided activity area must have the same reference ecosystem.
Note: See section 46 for the identification of the reference ecosystems
(9) The whole of each sub-area of a divided activity area must have the same reference ecosystem, and all the sub-areas must have reference ecosystems from the same major vegetation group.
Note: See section 46 for the identification of the reference ecosystems
(10) The whole of an activity area must: (a) have the same starting ecosystem condition state; and (b) be the subject of proposed environmental plantings with the same nominated restoration target. (11) In this section:
excluded water means inland water or sea, including mangrove areas, but does not include:
(a) ephemeral or vegetated (palustrine) wetlands (such as riparian areas, floodplains, swamps and marshes); or
(b) coastal land on the landward side of the low water mark.