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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ECOS 43 (3.3)- Conservation of Large Carnivores: Coexistence Lessons from Africa and Asia

The Year of the Rabbit, with associations of calm, peace and good luck, follows that [...]

ECOS 43 (3.2.1)- The UK Overseas Territories: moving away from colonialism in the environment?

Authors: Mike Pienkowski, Catherine Wensink (UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum); Catherine Childs, Luke Harding (National [...]

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ECOS 43 (3.2)- Post-Colonialism and Conservation in the UK Overseas Territories

A 2021 House of Commons inquiry into The UK’s footprint on global biodiversity noted: Around [...]

ECOS 43 (3.1.2)- Conservation on the frontline: Azov-Black Sea Ecological Corridor

Before the war The following account is based on information provided by Igor Studennikov, director [...]

ECOS 43 (3.1.1)- Ukraine: Transboundary conflict and conservation 

Introduction/Summary This article describes three existing and planned transboundary ecosystems restoration programmes in the Danube [...]

ECOS 43 (3.1)- Introduction to an ECOS feature on nature and war in Ukraine

The following articles would not have been possible without the help of all those who [...]

ECOS 43 (2): Passive Rewilding: A case for more trees on peat and fewer species reintroductions

A smorgas board of sophisticated rewilding initiatives are springing up across the UK, capturing the [...]

ECOS 43 (1): Education and skills for a nature-positive future

“For biodiversity to be protected, it has to be valued. This starts with education.” From [...]

ECOS 42 (4): The Right to Roam; the impending colonisation of nature?

The first difficulty is to see that the problem is difficult… where we thought everything [...]

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ECOS 42 (3): Time to put the wild back into rewilding

With rewilding in danger of becoming all things to all people we argue the need [...]

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