The council-funded project, spearheaded by urban planners Ethos Urban, opened to submissions on November 26, sparking criticism from some over the pre-Christmas launch and its 14-day submissions limit.

With a little more than a week left to have a say on whether the project should go ahead, council had logged just 179 submissions as of Tuesday.

The main objections to the ziplines include potential damage to native flora and fauna, commercialisation of natural bushland and an influx of bus traffic.

Toowong resident Margaret Deeth told council a “stream of buses” travelling around Mount Coo-tha would affect local wildlife.

“The number of ziplines proposed will cause a great deal of clearing of native vegetation, and the number of people who will then use the lines on a daily basis will also have a deleterious effect on the natural area, and on the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens,” Ms Deeth wrote in her submission.

While council is pitching the project as an “ecotourism” experience, many submissions believe it would cause “ecological degradation”.

Fortitude Valley resident John Mainwaring told council they should be funding more walking tracks rather than a “superficial form of tourism”.

Concerns about the habitat of powerful owls, particularly a nesting pair in the area of the proposed zipline, forced the council to request further assessments on the potential impacts, particularly around the use of helicopters during construction.

A new report concluded helicopters should be limited during the owls' May-September breeding season, although most construction work would be more than 100 metres away from the owls' nesting tree.

While many of the submissions oppose the project some like Indooroopilly resident Donald Stuart have given “wholehearted support” to what they think will boost tourism and opportunity in Brisbane.

Lord mayor Graham Quirk said he would not extend the December 14 submission deadline.

“Often we see only those that oppose things lodge submissions but it is open to anyone,” Cr Quirk said.

"There is a fair bit of misinformation being put out there by opponents. It is mischievous, it is not accurate. We will have, I believe, a good facility at the end of the day if approved, and it is one that will also be environmentally responsible."

Maiwar MP Michael Berkman has been co-ordinating a “grassroots” protest movement to garner  support to quash the proposal.

Mr Berkman has rallied a group of local residents to go door-knocking around neighbouring suburbs on Saturday.

“We'll be sharing information and action points with local residents who will be directly impacted by the project if it were to go ahead,” the Facebook event reads.

The council will hold three pop-up consultation sessions for community members over the first two weeks of December at JC Slaughter Falls, at South Bank and the Queen Street Mall.