ECOS Feature Articles

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

You can search the Archive by subject, author or edition.

 

Postgraduate Winner 2020: People and nature – are we listening to the right voices?

In the New Year of 2019, I was fortunate to be surrounded by outlandish natural [...]

Undergraduate Winner 2020: Does conservation have A diversity problem?

When I walked into my first day of studying Wildlife Conservation at university, one of [...]

Postgraduate Highly Commended 2020: Lessons from Scotland’s rewilding vs. repeopling debate

As a number of authors in ECOS and elsewhere have made clear, rewilding is both [...]

Undergraduate Highly Commended 2020: Living rivers

Rivers are interesting things. They flow inexorably towards the sea, carrying what was once billions [...]

Undergraduate Highly Commended 2020: Plant blindness – the botanical bias that no-one has heard of

Plants are all around us from urban parks to the rolling countryside to the insides [...]

A history of some major ecological literary discourses

Ecocriticism and the environmental humanities Ecofiction, novels based around environmental themes, and so-called Doomer Lit [...]

3 Comments

Book Review: Atlas of the Mammals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

ATLAS OF THE MAMMALS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND Derek Crawley et al & [...]

Future stewardship of national landscapes: challenges and opportunities of the Glover report

The Landscapes Review It is just over seventy years since the National Parks and Access [...]

1 Comment

Book Review: Untangling the Knot

UNTANGLING THE KNOT, BELUGAS & BEARS: My natural World on Film Mike Potts Whittles Publishing, [...]