ECOS Feature Articles

Welcome to the ECOS Archive - a compendium of 40 years of commentary and challenging writing on nature conservation in Britain.

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Author Archives: Nicholas Horne

ECOS 38 (5): Book Review: ReWild

REWILD The Art Of Returning To Nature NICK BAKER Aurum Press 2017 271 pages ISBN: [...]

ECOS 38 (5): Book Reviews: Camera Trapping

CAMERA TRAPPING FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH Francesco Rovero and Fridolin Zimmermann (eds.) Pelagic Publishing 2017 293 [...]

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Case study: Cara Clancy

Cara Clancy, PhD Researcher on Rewilding (in) the Anthropocene In a new venture for BANC, [...]

ECOS 38 (4): The Student Takeover

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few”.1 [...]

Learning in bear country: the journey to carnivore conflict mitigation

Co-existence – on whose terms? Humans are eager for more nature in their lives. This [...]

The human element in farmland management

How studying beetles led me to study people My undergraduate dissertation on beneficial beetles in [...]

Novel ecosystems: adapting to rapid change

Conservation science is being forced to adapt in the face of increasingly rapid anthropogenic change. [...]

Ex-situ conservation of amphibians

Amphibians are the most threatened species of vertebrates but are we doing enough to conserve [...]

The selfish philosophy of nature conservation

This article argues that the magnanimity that is associated with conservation is a misrepresentation of [...]

Urban Transformers

With the demands of a growing 21st century population and the cramped conditions of our [...]