Sick or Injured Wildlife

What to do if you spot sick or injured wildlife?

Please take time to help injured wildlife by following these simple steps:

  1. Observe the animal for signs of injury or illness and approach carefully. Always ensure the safety of yourself and others. If it is an injured or sick koala, bat, snake or adult kangaroo or wallaby, please call a registered wildlife carer or organisation immediately and do not handle the animal as they can cause serious injury.
  2. Remove the immediate threat and check if the animal is still alive. If it is a bird, small mammal or small non-venomous reptile pick the animal up using a towel or blanket and place in a ventilated box and keep warm, dark and quiet whilst transferring it to a vet.
  3. If you find a healthy uninjured baby bird that has fallen from the nest, you can attempt to renest the chick. Visit Wildcare Australia for more information on how to do this.
  4. Remember to check the pouches of dead kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, echidnas, possums and bandicoots for young. If you find pouch young, do not pull them off the teat. Instead, cut the teat from the dead mother and pin it to some material or pick up both mother and baby.
  5. Seek advice immediately from a vet (several vets are open 24 hours) or contact a wildlife carer/organisation. Council is unable to accept sick or injured animals. Call the 24 hour hotlines listed below for sick or injured native wildlife in South East Queensland.
  6. Council would appreciate any sightings of roadkill/strike animals or of any threatened or locally significant wildlife you may have encountered in Logan. These can be reported via the online Report your Wildlife Sightings form.

Contacts

Sea birds and water birds

Call Pelican and Seabird Rescue - Rescue Hotline on 0404 118 301.

Bats

Call Bat Conservation and Rescue on 0488 228 134.

Koalas

Call Daisy Hill Koala Ambulance on 07 3290 9136 or 0412 429 898.

The ambulance is operated by the Department of Environment & Resource Management and operates 365 days a year, from 8 am to 4.30 pm. If it is outside ambulance times of operation please call the contacts listed below.

Other wildlife

Wildlife Movement Solutions Working Group

South-East Queensland contains significant natural areas of high conservation value which provide home to a rich diversity of natural wildlife species, however they are coming under increasing threat as areas become more urbanised. Roads, associated with urban growth, can extensively subdivide bushland patches and wildlife populations, with the most direct and obvious impact being animal-vehicle collisions. Animal-vehicle collisions (often resulting in wildlife roadkill) are a political, ethical and ecological issue that necessitates mitigation strategies.

Representatives from Logan City Council are working together with officers from Brisbane City Council, Redland City Council, Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Department of Main Roads and the community and have formed the Wildlife Movement Solutions Working Group. This working group has developed the Wildlife Movement Solutions Trial Zone project which is trialing and testing small cost effective management solutions designed to reduce wildlife roadkill.

The aim of this project is to change both driver and wildlife behaviour in a significant roadkill hotspot area which spans three local government areas throughout Burbank-Mount Cotton. The project will focus on an array of measures aimed at influencing both driver and animal behaviour in an attempt to mitigate (primarily wallaby) roadkills.

Please refer to Wildlife Movements Solutions Trial Project (PDF 1046 KB) for more information on the project.

How can you help?

Every year, close to 2 million native animals die on Queensland roads. You can help reduce this number by remembering the following:

  • Be especially aware between dusk and dawn as is the time when wildlife is most active;
  • Take extra care and be alert to the possibility of wildlife when driving through gullies, approaching corners, on crests and in areas with roadside vegetation;
  • If you see wildlife on the road at night you should slow down, sound your horn and dim your lights; and
  • If you do hit an animal or see one that has been hit call 1300 ANIMAL or any of the other wildlife rescue contacts listed above.
  • Council would appreciate any sightings of roadkill/strike animals or of any threatened or locally significant wildlife you may have encountered in Logan. These can be reported via the Report your Wildlife Sightings form.