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.

 

Does evidence quality complacency hamper conservation?

The problems of evidence complacency are beginning to be recognised. Just as important are the [...]

ECOS 39 (1): Editorial: Nature’s Powerhouse

Editorial by Geoffrey Wain A Prime Minister’s day out at a wetland nature reserve is [...]

ECOS 39 (1): Book Reviews: The Lost Words

THE LOST WORDS A Spell book Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris London: Penguin, Hamish Hamilton [...]

ECOS 39 (1): Continuous Cover Forestry and Rewilding

Better understanding of Continuous Cover Forestry could steer much UK forestry practice towards the wider [...]

ECOS 39 (1): How many conservations?

Even amongst different categories of conservationists there are shades and scales of opinion – it’s [...]

ECOS 39 (1): Book Reviews: The Fish Ladder

THE FISH LADDER A journey upstream Katharine Norbury Bloomsbury 2015 Paperback, £9.99 ISBN: 978 1 [...]

ECOS 39 (1): Book Reviews: Nature’s Allies

NATURES ALLIES Eight Conservationists Who Changes Our World Larry A Nielson Island Press 2017 272 [...]

ECOS 39 (1): A Green Future

Is the Government’s new 25 year plan for the environment a sign it is desperately [...]