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: Tom Dwight

ECOS 40(1): Editorial: A future vintage?

Editorial by Geoffrey Wain A future vintage? So here we are. ECOS at 40. On [...]

ECOS 40(1): Third Division

Plants, in nature conservation and beyond, are commonly treated as third-division players. They are “not [...]

ECOS 40(1): ECOS revisited – the shape of things to come?

Editions Reviewed: ECOS 8(1), 8(2), 8(4), 10(3), 25(1), 28(1) How to make people love; how [...]

ECOS 40(1): ECOS revisited – highlights and lessons from the early years

Editions Reviewed: ECOS 1 (2), 1 (4), 4 (1) Refreshed perspectives… For many of us [...]

ECOS 40(1): Book Review: Thus Spoke the Plant

THUS SPOKE THE PLANT A remarkable journey of groundbreaking scientific discoveries and personal encounters with [...]

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ECOS 40(1): Book Review: Climate Change and British Wildlife

CLIMATE CHANGE AND BRITISH WILDLIFE Trevor BeeBee Bloomsbury2018366 PagesHardback £35ISBN: 978 147294 3194 Review by Peter Taylor [...]

ECOS 39(6): Editorial: Nature and wellbeing

Editorial by Gavin Saunders Nature and wellbeing – time to take the medicine? Wild nature [...]

ECOS 39(5): Book review: A SHADOW ABOVE

A SHADOW ABOVE The Fall and Rise of the Raven Joe Shute Bloomsbury Natural History [...]

ECOS 39(5): Book review: CURLEW MOON

CURLEW MOON Mary Colwell William Collins2018272 pagesHardback £16.99ISBN: 978-0-0081-4105-6 Review by Alistair Crowle Appreciating the plight [...]

ECOS 39(5): Book review: PLOUGHING A NEW FURROW

PLOUGHING A NEW FURROW A blueprint for wildlife friendly farming Malcolm Smith Whittles Publishing2018272 pagesPaperback [...]