Boundary Road in North Lakes is one of 11 roads that Moreton Bay officials have asked drivers to watch for wildlife, while the officials also set up a camera to study kangaroos near roads where they are commonly struck.
Council announced the camera on World Kangaroo Day, Saturday 24 October. Its media release says the motion-activated mobile camera is being set up around roads where kangaroos are often hit, with the footage analysed for ways to prevent collisions and to see how kangaroos react around vehicles. It does not say where the camera is, name any kangaroo hotspots or give suburb-level collision numbers, so it is not confirmed that North Lakes is involved.
Boundary Road’s place on the list comes from a council appeal to drivers in June, as reported by Moreton Daily. That report named the road but not the animals at risk there, so it does not show kangaroos are a particular problem on it. In the same report, Mayor Peter Flannery described dawn and dusk as “peak feeding times for koalas, kangaroos and other animals”.
“It’s important our wildlife can move around safely across roads and community areas,” Mayor Peter Flannery said in the council’s written release, which also urges drivers to take care around dawn and dusk and report injured wildlife as soon as possible.
North Lakes and its neighbours already appear in council’s wildlife road records. A 2019 council release listed wildlife stencils on Diamond Jubilee Way at North Lakes, and Maryvale Road at Mango Hill and Alma Road at Dakabin were among 12 sites for a 10-day warning sign trial in 2022. In Griffin, council has installed two escape hatches on Henry Road and two on Dohles Rocks Road. Those hatches are one-way exits designed for koalas, not kangaroos. Council’s trial of larger kangaroo and wallaby hatches is on Bribie Island.
The release also lists 150 LED vehicle-activated signs, 48 fauna underpasses and more than 40 fauna exclusion fencing locations. Those are city-wide totals, not figures for these suburbs. Council reported 130 of the signs in July 2025, so the count is growing.
Growth is part of council’s framing. Last year the mayor tied its wildlife road program to rising traffic from a “booming population”, and council says it counts 8.8 million vehicle movements a week in its wildlife zones. Nothing published shows whether that growth has changed where kangaroos cross in North Lakes, Mango Hill, Griffin or Dakabin, and no kangaroo-specific collision figures are available for those suburbs. An earlier Moreton Daily report quoted a local environment group member who spotted a young kangaroo family at North Lakes Reserve and recalled a much larger kangaroo population in the suburb.
For residents, council’s advice is to watch for wildlife signs, slow down where it is safe, take extra care at dawn and dusk, and make sure headlights work. It also asks people to keep dogs on a lead near kangaroos, not to feed or approach them, and to report sick or injured animals to the RSPCA on 1300 ANIMAL.
Whether Boundary Road or any other local street ends up in front of the camera is still for council to say.
Published Date 24-October-2026
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