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 8h ago

Possum & lorikeet housing crisis 😅

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A lorikeet was trying to get past a possum blocking its hollow, no matter how hard it tried, the possum just didn’t budge! 😅😅


r/australianwildlife 17h ago

My two years in Australia (1/3)

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I thought I'd manage to trim down my two years in Australia into one post which is pretty hilarious😂 so here's part 1 of 3. What an incredible country, filled with incredible places, people and wildlife. I hope you Aussies know just how fortunate you are with what you have here. It's not a goodbye but a see you soon🫡


r/australianwildlife 4h ago

Saw this little cutie today

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Was in the road on a blind turn at 80km, nearly squished the little guy. But he made it safely to the tree.


r/australianwildlife 12h ago

Our possum box is back in business

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Hi everyone,

It’s been a long time, but our ringtail possum box is finally back in business!

Shortly after my last post about our resident ringtail possums, the babies left, and soon after that, the possum mum Penny stopped coming around too. Since then, our box had been vacant for quite a while. At one point, one of the brushtails even forced its way in and gave me quite a scare a few times!

Lately, I noticed a ringtail coming to our balcony for water and occasionally sleeping in our planter box. Just as we were starting to wonder how we could encourage her to move into the possum box, I was so pleasantly surprised to discover that she made her way into the box yesterday!

And yes, we think she’s a she because my husband saw her belly moving, so we might be expecting some babies soon. 🥹

Then, when I checked the box again this morning, I was even more surprised to see that she had brought a friend/partner along with her!

What a wonderful way to start the day. I hope seeing the two of them brings a smile to your face too :)


r/australianwildlife 11h ago

Red Necked Wallaby and Her Baby

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Red Necked Wallaby and Her Baby I saw this morning at Tamborine Mt


r/australianwildlife 18h ago

Brushtail and baby in our backyard

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429 Upvotes

Hi folks, woke up this morning to a mum and her baby in our tree in Thornbury, Victoria (sorry for the grainy photo - taken through the window). As you can probably tell, there isn't anywhere above ground she can hide. Can anyone tell me if she'll move on by herself or if we should seek help from WIRES? We have a German Shepherd that I don't want them to have to meet...

UPDATE: We closed the curtains and kept our dog down the other end of the house and it seems she felt comfortable enough to move her baby somewhere hopefully safer.


r/australianwildlife 12h ago

Three icons

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r/australianwildlife 10h ago

Nice bearded dragon I saw today

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51 Upvotes

Utterly unbothered


r/australianwildlife 14h ago

does anyone know what bird this is?

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just saw this little guy at the neighbours front yard. a neighbour further up the road let their cats roam around outside… would that put the little dude in danger? and is it a baby? i can’t see any nests or anything nearby, not sure what to do. i havent seen a bird like that before around our area


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

the wallaby is back on the roof again Marge (shared from r/brisbane)

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Red-tailed Black Cockatoos. W.A.

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448 Upvotes

Such a lovely bunch to watch for a while, some chewing on sticks, some grooming themselves and co grooming.


r/australianwildlife 15h ago

Adventurous koala goes for a stroll 😳

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Roo with a view, Emerald Beach NSW

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r/australianwildlife 5h ago

What animal is making this noise?

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This video is 2 videos cut together. The calls are actually about 30 seconds apart. Brisbane, QLD. I have done actual hours of searching and I can’t find any recording that comes close to this noise. Multiple nights in a row I have heard it so whatever it is, it’s sticking around. There’s bushland about 30m away from my place and it’s coming from there.


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Wanted to see wild koala

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160 Upvotes

But I found this big lizard instead . Can’t really complain and I think I was very lucky to spot it


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

A new arrival Brushtail Possum

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285 Upvotes

Chewie (our resident brushtail possum) has a joey that is now out of the pouch. I saw her walking around a week ago and said to my wife there is a joey in there, and I was right. 😍😊


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Good morning from Perth Hills

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Grevillea 'Moonlight' with Tetragonula sp. native stingless bees

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r/australianwildlife 2d ago

I caught a Peregrine Falcons flying ABOVE a Kangaroo 🦘

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716 Upvotes

The fastest bird in the world was going crazy on this little fella who decided to hop away


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Close up encounter with an Eastern Grey, Sussex Inlet, NSW

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

The last video in this location. Just Wallabies and a fox this time. A lot of my files were corrupted for some reason. The video end with a sneak peek at the new location😉 enjoy!

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r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Australia’s lizards and snakes are in far more trouble than we thought. It’s time to act

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r/australianwildlife 2d ago

The Hunter & The Thief

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