ECOS 46 (2) – UCL Nature & Conservation Society Conference 2025 – Challenging perspectives on contexts for conservation

Conference report article JANET MACKINNON The British Association of Nature Conservationists and ECOS welcomed another [...]

ECOS 46 (1) – Illegal lynx releases signal discontent — a wake-up call for rewilding advocates

HANNAH L. TIMMINS · In early January 2025, four lynx, extinct in the UK, were [...]

ECOS 45 (6) – The spirit of rewilding

Releasing our grip on nature & rediscovering our own wildness PETER TAYLOR Rewilding has caught [...]

ECOS 45 (5) – Voices of the wild

A review of rewilding podcasts EDWARD GRIERSON Podcasts are an unlikely media success story. At [...]

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ECOS 45 (4) – Grass roots action meets high-level nature policy

UCL Nature & Conservation Society conference supported by ECOS JANET MACKINNON Following a five year [...]

ECOS 45 (3) – How modern management erases ‘Ancient Woods’

IAN D. ROTHERHAM A rich resource for people, wildlife, and heritage Ancient woodland is, in [...]

ECOS 45 (1) – Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing and Degazettement (PADDD) in the UK

NIGEL DUDLEY We know that British protected areas are legally being downgraded, downsized and sometimes [...]

ECOS 44 (5.1)- Selling England by the pound

IAN D. ROTHERHAM Biodiversity offset as conservation opportunity or clever scam? This is an opinion [...]

ECOS 44 (5)- Biodiversity offset and planning gain in relation to habitat creation and translocation – the wise choices for wildlife

IAN D. ROTHERHAM Emerging in the 1980s and 1990s, ideas of habitat rescue and transplantation, [...]

ECOS 44 (4)- Are countryside managers responsible for Britain’s 2022 summer wildfires?

BRYN GREEN Heath and grassland fires – causes and effects Like 1976, the exceptionally long, [...]