r/australianwildlife May 13 '26

[READ FIRST] Code of conduct and sub rules.

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Hello beautiful people,

As the subreddit continues to grow and more members participate, we wanted to clarify a few things around the community conduct, spam, reporting and auto-moderation work happening behind scenes, to manage expectations.

Our goal is to keep r/australianwildlife welcoming, informative, fair, and focused on Australian fauna.

What are the community expectations?

We encourage everyone to:

  • Share your wildlife photos and videos
  • Request identification of Australian animals
  • Discuss conservation news, or educational content
  • Keep conversations respectful, and in the case of disagreement, civil.
  • Help others learn about Australian wildlife, how to properly interact with it, and how to appreciate it

What we do not tolerate:

  • Hate speech, racism, abusive behaviour
  • Harassment or personal attacks
  • Encouragement to mistreat, harm or attack our wildlife
  • Deliberate share of misinformation
  • Trolling, or ragebaiting posting
  • AI generated content or low effort posting
  • Karma farming

Do notice, disagreement with your personal views is fine as long as it doesn't escalate to hostility. If there are comments you do not appreciate, but doesn't align to the points above, there is no point on reporting said comment, as the mod team will not act on said comments. You are free to downvote the post, which is a way of crowd punishment a lot more effective than taking a comment down.

Wildlife welfare comes first

Please, do not:

  • Share unsafe advice
  • Encourage feeding wildlife irresponsibly (do notice the last word in that sentence)
  • Handle wildlife unnecessarily
  • Harass animals for photos / videos
  • Posting content showing deliberate cruelty, abuse or harassment of Aussie wildlife

We want the community to promote the appreciation for what we have. It is not meant for farming meaningless internet points. Karma is used to give you some credibility on the platform, it means nothing in real life.

Auto moderation

This subreddit is using automoderation, that is, we have scripts and bots reviewing the content posted to find duplicates, spam, and/or accounts without the criteria to be able to post. Automod isn't perfect, but it helps a lot.

Automod will automatically act on:

  • Posting from accounts that are too young (less than a year old) or have too little karma
  • Posting that appears to be duplicate to other content in this subreddit
  • Abusive language in posts or comments
  • Confirmed spamming accounts
  • Identification of certain keywords, or links

The rules enforced by auto moderation might increase over time. If you feel your account or content has been targeted for automoderation unfairly, please reach out to the moderators. We will need a little bit of time to review it and fix things.

Posting the same message again will only make things worse for your account as it will be marked as a confirmed spamming source.

What's considered spam?

Spam isn't limited to ads, and reddit has its own guidance on it as well.

  • Repeating, reposting the same content
  • Posting identical content across many subreddits in a short period of time
  • Excessive self-promotion
  • YouTube / blogs / social media dumping without any meaningful participation
  • Link farming
  • Bot-style posting behaviours
  • Low-effort engagement bait
  • Accounts created only to promote businesses, channels, or products

What to report?

On this day and age, we all need to keep a job to feed our families, meaning we aren't on the platform 24/7.

The moderation team rely on members to report behaviours violating our code of conduct and rules. And we have the expectation everyone reporting is mature enough to understand what should be reported and what shouldn't.

What things to report?

  • Animal cruelty
  • Wildlife harassment
  • Dangerous misinformation
  • Spam or Bot activity (as long as it can be confirmed)
  • Stolen content
  • Scams
  • Harassment or abuse
  • Graphic content not tagged as NSFW
  • Obvious ban evasion

What not to report?

  • Disagreement of opinion
  • Someone made a mistake, or asked a trivial question
  • You dislike a particular species, the content posted, or the opinion someone else has
  • Posts is common or appears to be repetitive
  • A discussion containing respectful disagreement

False or excessive reporting makes it harder for the moderation team to respond to actual issues.

If a discussion descends into chaos, the team will lock or remove the post, and following posting of the same nature will be removed.

What would happen if I do not follow the code of conduct?

  • Repeated offenders will be given a cool-off period that variates between two weeks to a month.
  • If the cool-off period wasn't enough to make you behave as a reasonable human being, you will have an immediate permanent ban.

We follow the old proverb:

Never trust a person that has let you down more than two times.
Once was a warning,
Twice was a lesson
And anything more then that is simply taking advantage.

The TL;DR;

Most people here are fantastic, knowledgeable, and genuinely passionate about Aussie wildlife.

Before posting be sure to own the content you post, to avoid duplication, be kind and respectful with others.

Being respectful means to also understand others have a difference of opinion. Disagreeing with someone else doesn't mean you have to report said person, having a respectful opinion is not a crime.

Report comments or posts not aligned with our rules, to help us reduce spam, bot activity and bad-faith behaviour.

The moderation team are people too. We can make mistakes too, that doesn't give you the right to be a dick or disrespectful if you have been moderated.

Thanks to everyone who contributes positively to the community.

-- The mod team


r/australianwildlife Feb 02 '22

Why you should not feed wild animals

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r/australianwildlife 7h ago

Spotted Quoll in my Backyard

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I noticed the cockatoos being extra screechy this morning. Realised they were watching a quoll stalk a brush tail possum. First time seeing one in the wild, extra special since I saw it in my backyard. Location Blue Mountains


r/australianwildlife 2h ago

Friendly rock wallabies

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Friendly wild rock wallabies coming up and asking for food near Townsville


r/australianwildlife 43m ago

Ring tailed possum

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Betty. Here’s to fresh branches, moonlit nights and a life spent wild and free


r/australianwildlife 6h ago

Chill turtle in Mt Coot-tha

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r/australianwildlife 5h ago

Guys what do I do with this miner I just found

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It was literally in the middle of the road, its parents decided to make a nest right above a road so it clearly fell out

Update: I took it to a bird vet and they told me to put it in a box and strap it to the tree the nest is in which I shall do tomorrow


r/australianwildlife 23h ago

Managed to capture this mumma koala and her baby changing trees. Amity, Stradbroke Island

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r/australianwildlife 2h ago

Native miner in my cotton tree

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I’m not sure which bird this is, and frankly I normally don’t post stuff on Reddit, but the fact I could record this just meters away is pretty cool, he flew off when it was done grooming.


r/australianwildlife 10h ago

Siesta time! - Whiptail(Pretty-faced) Wallaby - Notamacropus parryi - Scenic Rim, SEQ

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Whiptail(Pretty-faced) Wallaby snoozing under a Lomandra


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

The Snot Bubble on this echidna made me smile ❤️

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Seeing the ticks on him didn’t make me smile as much but thankfully he didn’t seem too phased at all.


r/australianwildlife 9h ago

Kookaburra seen in Western Vic

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r/australianwildlife 11m ago

Mama ringtail update

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To all of you who follow our resident ringtail possum, there’s an unfortunate development today. The day has finally come when our complex has started vegetation clearing to address waterproofing issues caused by tree roots.

I was supposed to be in the office today, but decided to WFH because I’m still recovering from a cold. Around midday, I noticed the sound of tree cutting getting louder and louder. Then, the next thing I knew, the biggest tree right next to our balcony was being cut down.

That’s when I started to panic — because Mama is still in the box. 😭

I decided to call WIRES to see if they could send a volunteer to collect her. I explained that it really needed to happen before around 6:30pm, because I was worried that once Mama came out of the box, she would find herself with nowhere to go from the balcony.

Luckily, a lovely volunteer arrived just in time. She actually lives on the same street and dedicates her days to helping all kinds of possums. She has helped us on more than one occasion with both injured brushtail and ringtail possums, so I knew Mama would be in good hands.

It’s sad to see Mama go, but I’m also incredibly relieved that she didn’t jump out of the box while they were still cutting the trees, that could have ended so much worse.

Sorry guys, I won’t have any baby photos to share .🥺 But the image from this morning of Mama sound asleep, curled up into a little ball, will stay with me for a very long time.

I know she’s in good hands, and I really hope we’ll be able to find a safe spot to install our possum box in the future


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Common ringtail possum. New visitor to our backyard

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We get brushtails most nights but this is the first ringtail I’ve seen at our place


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

This absolute unit of a ...?

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My dad took this photo on his property in Grantham, QLD. He asked: "is this a wallaby or a kangaroo? Most wallabies are grey"

I think it's a kangaroo, but I'm the bird watcher in the family, so I only know it's not an Ibis.


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

some beauties I have had the pleasure of swimming with this week

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all observed in Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve.

photos by me (@bellagoesdiving).


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

As a Kiwi, We Found This Slightly Terrifying.

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Picking fights, with big brother, does not go well - Pretty-faced Wallabies - Scenic Rim, SEQ

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Who's this little dude? Brisbane

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r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Saw a Mola Mola at Cabbage Tree Bay today

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Terrible at hide and seek, King Parrot spotted in Brisbane.

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r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Two Eastern Brown snakes fighting near Hallett Cove Boardwalk, Adelaide

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Saw these two fighting for a few minutes before breaking apart and going their separate ways. We move to Australia a year ago, and this is the first time we have seen a snake in the wild. Pretty cool. (I have a video but no idea how to post it haha)


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Best spot to see kookaburras in sydney?

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Hi everyone just landed in Sydney, and i am very keen to spot the infamous laughing kookaburras! Its probably my favourite bird from Australia ive seen on the internet so far, would love any suggestions! Much thanks


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Saw this struggling in the water, I think it had become caught in a web... flew off eventually unharmed 🥰

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r/australianwildlife 2d ago

My two years in Australia (2/3)

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Follow up to My two years in Australia (1/3). Missing eucalyptus scented sunrises.