Simon Corbell has announced cat curfew regulations are being extended to Crace, Coombs, Wright, Lawson and parts of North Watson:
The new cat curfew areas adjoin significant conservation areas that contain critical habitats for several threatened species including lizards, insects and bird species that are susceptible to cat predation.
These include the nationally vulnerable pink-tailed worm lizard and striped legless lizard, the perunga grasshopper which is considered vulnerable within the ACT and the Canberra raspy cricket, which is confined to the Canberra region. Several threatened and declining woodland birds, including the white-winged triller, varied sitella and diamond firetail also feed and nest in neighbouring vegetation.