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.

 

Crisis talks: old wisdom meets new energy

Two eye-witness accounts of November’s ECOS/UCL mini-conference To mark our 40th anniversary, ECOS joined forces [...]

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): 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 39 (3): Meat: The Alpha and Omega of Extinction

In assessing the various causes of species’ extinction, humans need to recognise the dominant influence [...]

ECOS 38 (3): Book Reviews: Confessions of a recovering environmentalist

CONFESSIONS OF A RECOVERING ENVIRONMENTALIST Paul Kingsnorth Faber & Faber 2017 284 pages ISBN: 978-0-571-32969-4 [...]

ECOS 38 (5): Book Review: Woodland Development

WOODLAND DEVELOPMENT A Long Term Study of Lady Park Wood George Peterken and Edward Mountford [...]

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Book Review: The Wood For The Trees and The Hidden Life Of Trees

THE WOOD FOR THE TREES The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood Richard [...]

ECOS 37 (2) Rewilding versus re-creating and re-homing: Lessons from a PAWS woodland. Simon Leadbeater

Abstract: This article discusses lessons for rewilding from pursuing complementary management objectives to halt and [...]

ECOS 36 (2) Compassionate conservation – making the case. Simon Leadbeater

Abstract: This article reviews Marc Bekoff’s book Ignoring Nature No More, and discusses the various [...]

ECOS 32 (1) Spring 2011. Deer management and biodiversity in England: the efficacy and ethics of culling. Simon Leadbeater

Abstract: This article examines the issues associated with controlling deer numbers in order to protect [...]