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.

 

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 The rise of citizen science: How can community research help nature? Kay Haw

Abstract: Citizen science is a popular way of gathering data and involving the public in [...]

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 Navigating nature: how to heal our blurred vision of wildlife

Abstract: Parents, grandparents, and even teachers, are no longer able to ‘introduce young children to [...]

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 Editorial: Finding our way back to nature. Geoffrey Wain

Download this article as a PDF: ECOS 35-2-1 Finding our way – Editorial

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Book reviews

Books: – Brede High Woods: The history and wildlife of a High Weald woodland. Patrick [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Speaking for myself. Martin Spray

Abstract: I may not know what the truth is – but do I have to [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 The Somerset badger cull – the theory and the practice. Amanda Barrett

Abstract: This article describes events at close quarters, as the author followed some of the [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 What future for Bears in Western Europe? Charles J. Wilson

Abstract: The brown bear has been pushed to the remotest forests and mountains in western [...]

ECOS 35 (1) The Call of the Wild: perceptions, history, people and ecology in the emerging paradigms of wilding. Ian Rotherham

Abstract: This article introduces some key issues of nature conservation and future landscapes in the [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Wildlife on the level? Peter Taylor

Abstract: Political and personal opportunists use the flooding of the Somerset Levels to advance their [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Drowning out nature on the Levels? Mark Robins

Abstract: This article offers a personal view from the heart of the response process to [...]