02/09/2026
SIX KOALAS HIT IN SIX WEEKS - ON ONE ROAD! 146 died in the same area last year (Cooparoo area). Honestly, this is beyond terrible and I was shocked reading the below post, especially as we KNOW this particular road is a death trap, with years of community groups advocating for Brisbane council to do something before the death toll beats last years. If you're in the Brisbane city council, or even if you're not, Save the Koalas and Wallabies of White's Hill have listed how you can help and who to email below.
SIX KOALAS HIT IN SIX WEEKS - ON ONE ROAD!
🗣️Ask Brisbane City Council to act to reduce the carnage!
🐨We were hoping to post some positive, proactive posts for 'Save the Koala' month, starting with an infographic yesterday.
😪We'd no sooner posted it and received the terrible news that ANOTHER koala was hit on Boundary Rd.
💔That's TWO in TWO DAYS
💔SIX in less than SIX WEEKS!
👿The majority were hit & runs - we'll never know if treatment was an option and need the community to do better.
🛑But we need council to do better too, as relying on rehabilitation still isn't good enough - we need to provide these poor animals a way to safely move through their home ranges, not play Russian Roulette every single day of their all-too-short lives.
🚨These are endangered animals!
🪦We are well and truly on our way to 'beat' last year's record of 146 koalas deceased in our area
🙈There is terrible roadside visibility in parts of this road and at a speed of 60 k/h, it is difficult to see them - and their chance of survival drastically reduces if hit.
😮On a related note, it is unbelievable that Brisbane City Council wants to INCREASE the speed limit through the koala corridor on Donnington St, Carindale. We need to be reducing risks to our koalas, not increasing them. See our post earlier this week to say 'no' to this.
We can't stop all incidents occurring, but believe that we can do much better on Boundary Rd:
🛻💨The speed limit needs to be reduced to 50 k/h, from at least dusk to dawn - this provides another 10 metres of safe reaction/stopping distance.
🚧Safe crossing infrastructure is needed to allow koalas to move back & forth.
⚡There are increasingly tech options like AI detection options that may be suitable.
🚫But allowing this carnage to continue is not an option. It's also unfair on the unpaid community volunteers who are attending more than a dozen incidents in our area each day - a huge cost both personally, financially and emotionally and also puts them at risk!
❌This is simply not good enough
How can you help?
Ask council to implement the above by emailing:
📧Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner - [email protected]
📧Councillor Fiona Cunningham - [email protected]
📧Councillor Krista Adams - [email protected]
📧cc - your local councillor
🫷Don't let them tell you that the state government won't let them do this for wildlife - this is covered in the Qld Road Safety Technical User Volumes Guide to
Speed Management in Section 7.19 Other Circumstances.
They just need to follow the normal process for a speed limit review with details about wildlife activity on the road. There is also evidence of at least 4 vehicle accidents on this road in the last 12 months to support this request.
