ECOS Feature Articles

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 40(2): Nature conservation’s future – back to basics?

Protecting priority sites and species should remain our key concern. In the digital age we [...]

ECOS 40(2): The meaning of nature conservation – a personal journey

Reawakening nature on your home ground – lessons from a collective effort in Dumfriesshire. Looking [...]

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ECOS 40(2): ECOS revisited – the early 90s melting pot

Editions reviewed:ECOS 12(1), 12(2), 14(1), 14(3/4) In 1991, James Robertson writing about his own official [...]

ECOS 40(2): Book Review: Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane Hamish Hamilton, 2019, 496 pages£20 Hardback, ISBN 9780241143803 Review by Rogelio Luque-Lora One [...]

ECOS 40(2): Book Review: The Red Kite’s Year

Ian Carter and Dan Powell Pelagic Publishing, 2019, 158 Pages£25 Paperback, ISBN 9781784272005 Review by [...]

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ECOS 40(1): Third Division

Plants, in nature conservation and beyond, are commonly treated as third-division players. They are “not [...]

ECOS 40(1): Wisdom or dogma? Reflections on the People’s Manifesto for Wildlife

Wisdom or dogma? Reflections on the People’s Manifesto for Wildlife We need a Species’ Manifesto [...]

ECOS 40(1): ECOS revisited – the shape of things to come?

Editions Reviewed: ECOS 8(1), 8(2), 8(4), 10(3), 25(1), 28(1) How to make people love; how [...]

ECOS 40(1): Book Review: Thus Spoke the Plant

THUS SPOKE THE PLANT A remarkable journey of groundbreaking scientific discoveries and personal encounters with [...]

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