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.

 

The human element in farmland management

How studying beetles led me to study people My undergraduate dissertation on beneficial beetles in [...]

Novel ecosystems: adapting to rapid change

Conservation science is being forced to adapt in the face of increasingly rapid anthropogenic change. [...]

Ex-situ conservation of amphibians

Amphibians are the most threatened species of vertebrates but are we doing enough to conserve [...]

The selfish philosophy of nature conservation

This article argues that the magnanimity that is associated with conservation is a misrepresentation of [...]

Urban Transformers

With the demands of a growing 21st century population and the cramped conditions of our [...]

The elephant in the uplands and a tale of two narratives

Winner – ECOS Student Article 2017 Competition, supported by Conservation Careers and Green&Blue Why in [...]

Behaviour change measures in conservation

Behaviour change measures are used in fields such as public health, but have only recently [...]

ECOS 38 (3): Brexit realpolitik

A broad case for conservation should underpin post-Brexit nature policy if it is to match [...]

ECOS 38 (3): North East Nature

The Tyne and Wear Green Belt and the area’s green spaces continue to be threatened [...]

ECOS 38 (3): Green Blob Politics

How will environmental politics be framed in the post-election muddle, and will the daunting figure [...]