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Conservation Comment: Year of extinctions

There were several species whose last representative passed away during 2018.

Letters: Guilt develops over killing common pests

Letters to the Editor

Don't lose your direction in life, find and follow your moral compass

Don't lose your moral compass, writes Terry Sarten.

Te Araroa trail claims steer off course

In defence of the Te Araroa trail

Letters: Poison works for possums

Possum and deer culling by hunters don't work. Human nature and expense defeat them.

Gwynne Dyer: The stars our destination

Interstellar travel suddenly seems closer with work on a space drive that burns no fuel.

Chester Borrows: Easy living in a lucky country

A big, fat kereru sits on a kahikatea outside the window as I brew the day's first coffee.

Letters: All quiet on the ferry front

When the onus is on profit, all other consideration goes out the window. - Paul Evans

Fred Frederikse: It's one way to foil spies

Beat the security spies and ensure privacy by writing a letter and posting it in the mail.

Letters: Singers enjoy seaside sessions at the Pav

Hopefully, one day soon the beach will not need any so-called grooming.

Jay Kuten: New day dawning in United States

Hope dawns as Democrats take control of the US House of Representatives.

Gwynne Dyer: Work on global warming moves at slow pace

We are getting into very deep water here, but we may have no other options.

Letters: Chiefs' Treaty role disputed

'Accountability does not seem to be a part of the WDC's day-to-day operations'

Gwynne Dyer: What went wrong in eastern Europe?

The dreams that drove the anti-Communist revolutions of 1989 are still alive but fading.

Letters: Mowhanau cliff erosion's real story

The erosion isolating the headland is 20-30m inland from where the boulders were removed.

Letters: Editorial writers lack wit

We have a tapestry of incredible richness in this wonderful population of ours.

Conservation Comment: Crunch time on emissions

It seems they are now realising that the expense of doing nothing is rising rapidly.

David Cormack: Please, let's make these things happen in 2019

Comment: Here's a list of things I want to see happen in 2019.