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Welcome to the ECOS Archive - a compendium of 40 years of commentary and challenging writing on nature conservation in Britain.

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ECOS 36 (1) Spring 2015. Wildlife and conservation in community woods: Business as usual? Alexander van der Jagt, Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Anna Lawrence

Abstract: Social and community enterprise projects in woodland management are on the rise in Britain. [...]

ECOS 45 (4) – Grass roots action meets high-level nature policy

UCL Nature & Conservation Society conference supported by ECOS JANET MACKINNON Following a five year [...]

KOALA

A Natural History and an Uncertain Future Danielle Clode Norton, 2023, 322 pages Hardback £19.95 [...]

ECOS 45 (3) – How modern management erases ‘Ancient Woods’

IAN D. ROTHERHAM A rich resource for people, wildlife, and heritage Ancient woodland is, in [...]

ECOS 45 (2.1): Postgraduate Award 2023

A Clash of Values: Why should we believe in the inherent value of nature? JACK [...]

ECOS 45 (1) – Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing and Degazettement (PADDD) in the UK

NIGEL DUDLEY We know that British protected areas are legally being downgraded, downsized and sometimes [...]

ECOS Interviews: MATHEW FRITH

Thoughts from influential nature conservationists… Mathew Frith Career Highlights They have been numerous, but include [...]

ECOS 44 (5.1)- Selling England by the pound

IAN D. ROTHERHAM Biodiversity offset as conservation opportunity or clever scam? This is an opinion [...]

ECOS 44 (5)- Biodiversity offset and planning gain in relation to habitat creation and translocation – the wise choices for wildlife

IAN D. ROTHERHAM Emerging in the 1980s and 1990s, ideas of habitat rescue and transplantation, [...]

Wildlife Charities: Political Meddling or Acting For Nature?

There was a great furore recently when the RSPB called the Prime Minister and other [...]