Wildlife awareness monitors

Further to the success of the Speed Awareness Monitors program, Brisbane City Council has installed wildlife awareness monitors as part of an initiative to help protect and maintain our city's biodiversity.

About the initiative

Council has installed 29 wildlife awareness monitors at high-priority wildlife sites across Brisbane since December 2019. The initiative alerts drivers to the potential presence of wildlife in an effort to reduce the risk of animal strikes and increase driver awareness of high wildlife presence on our roads.

As part of this initiative, wildlife awareness monitors have been installed at the following sites. 

How the monitors work

Wildlife awareness monitors are permanent installations that are solar-powered. Messaging on the signs can be customised, based on wildlife movements across the seasons, such as during breeding or Joey season.

The monitors are installed with radars that detect speed as vehicles approach. Depending on the vehicle's speed, one of the following two messages is displayed.

1. A smiling koala face is displayed when the driver is travelling at or below the posted speed limit.
2. A 'slow down' message is displayed if the driver is travelling above the speed limit.

The purpose of monitors is to alert drivers to their speed to improve road safety and minimise the risk of animal strikes, not to issue infringement notices.

More information

If you would like to find out more about wildlife awareness monitors, you can:

• phone Council on 07 3403 8888
• email the project team
• write to:
  Wildlife Awareness Monitors project
  Transport Planning and Operations
  Brisbane City Council
  GPO Box 1434
  Brisbane Qld 4001.