ECOS Feature Articles

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ECOS Edition: ECOS 39(1)

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 [...]