ECOS Feature Articles

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ECOS Edition: ECOS 38(1)

ECOS 38 (1): The role of BANC and ECOS: A space for views, or espousing a view?

As BANC and ECOS move more fully to a web format, discussion continues on the [...]

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ECOS 38 (1): Champions of grassroots conservation: A future for local authority countryside services?

This article discusses key messages in the author’s 2015 book, The Rise and Fall of [...]

ECOS 38 (1): Rewilding – A Process or a Paradigm?

Teasing out the definitions and meanings of rewilding may reveal the variety of ways the [...]

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ECOS 38 (1): Planet Earth III? For nature’s sake, no thanks

With so much wildlife sliding into oblivion, we now need a rethink about BBC’s flagship [...]

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ECOS 38 (1): Book Review: Wild Kingdom by Stephen Moss

Wild Kingdom Bringing Back Britain’s Wildlife Stephen Moss Square Peg 2016 304 pages, ISBN 13: [...]

ECOS 38 (1): Editorial – Knot the best image?

Editorial by Geoffrey Wain What do we stand for, how do we symbolise it, and [...]

ECOS 38 (1): Hard Brexit – Soft Rewilding?

Ideological challenges to nature conservation are nothing new, but now they can take different guises [...]

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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 38 (1): Wild boar in the Dean – welcome back?

Unofficially released wild boar have been changing the physical and political landscape of the Forest [...]

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ECOS 38 (1): Book Review: The Eurasian Beaver Handbook

THE EURASIAN BEAVER HANDBOOK Ecology and Management of Castor fiber Róisín Campbell-Palmer, Derek Gow, Gerhard [...]