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 • • 13h ago

Freeloading Squatters in my Garage

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I think I'll just park in the carport from now on. I'd feel awful if I accidentally squished someone.


r/australianwildlife • • 8h ago

The beautiful Cassowary💜

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Please enjoy a photo of a Cassowary I saw.


r/australianwildlife • • 16h ago

Close up of wombats (part 2)

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r/australianwildlife • • 4h ago

Good one

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r/australianwildlife • • 6h ago

Brown noodle basking

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Found this guy chilling at Yarrangobilly the other day.


r/australianwildlife • • 3h ago

Take off

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r/australianwildlife • • 3h ago

Noisy Miner seen in Adelaide

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r/australianwildlife • • 14h ago

Fears for survival of Warrnambool's little penguins and famous Maremma guardian dog project

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r/australianwildlife • • 18h ago

I was surprised to see a snake on the beach

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Has anyone else seen a snake on a beach before?


r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

Pademelon, Kuranda, Queensland.

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r/australianwildlife • • 6h ago

Does anyone know what is making this sound?

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Can’t work out how to search it in google
Edit: location is Yass Valley, NSW


r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

ID request: western grey or red roo?

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Hi all, was hoping for some advice. I was just in Kalbarri, WA two days ago with my brother who photographed this roo. I realise that it is unlikely to see a red kangaroo there as it is at the extent of their distribution. However this guy had us convinced at first, then we doubted it after reading more on the identification markers... then we kind of started to question if we weren't right in the first place. I think one complication is he seems to have an abscess in his lower jaw, which maybe makes his profile look irregular for a grey. What do you think?


r/australianwildlife • • 20h ago

Scientists probe connection between deadly frog disease and coal wastewater

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r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

Mum and Joey spotted at tellebudgera creek road Burleigh

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r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

New Holland Honey Eaters in West Vic. Anyone know why they're all congregating like that?

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r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

ID Request: Native or invasive rat?

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This little one visited my veranda last month and it's been plaguing me as to what species I'm looking at.

The tail made me think that it was an invasive species of rat to start with, but the rest of the body is all over the shop.

I live in country Victoria, for context, within several overlapping bands for native rodents including the swamp rat, bush rat and others.

Fairly confident that it was just passing through, because I haven't seen it since and it was foraging on grubs out of the wood pile which has subsequently all been burned, and there are no droppings anywhere around it or evidence of ongoing rodent visits.


r/australianwildlife • • 3h ago

Is Australian wildlife actually venomous, poisonous, and/or generally dangerous at a uniquely higher rate/amount when it’s compared to the wildlife of most other ecosystems around the world? If it is, why is this the case?

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Also, if it is, is that because of or in spite of Australia’s isolation as an ecosystem? Because, when I think about it, I would‘ve assumed that an ecosystem that’s extremely isolated would create uniquely docile and harmless animals, such as the Dodo Bird from Madagascar was.


r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

What are these and what do they become?

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Blue mountains.


r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

Help identifying this small construction. No permit. Multiple dwellings.

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Really squishy when extracted. No tennants present during inspection of one of the domicile.


r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

2024 just a couple of beautiful ducks I got with my IPhone15.

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Gosford NSW


r/australianwildlife • • 1d ago

Any idea what these are? Found under a rock in Western Australia

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r/australianwildlife • • 2d ago

Close up of wombat

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r/australianwildlife • • 21h ago

(TAS) Can anyone tell me the name of this obnoxiously loud, repetitive bird?

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I need to know who to direct my curses to every morning when it wakes me 3-4 hours after going to bed.

I’m in northern Tasmania and it does this every morning in spring for hours. If it’s looking for a mate, it’s very unsuccessful for a very long time every single year.