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 39(6): Medicine for contemporary ills: a ‘Dose of Nature’?

Human health and nature find common cause in ‘green prescribing’. What is the case for [...]

ECOS 39(6): Editorial: Nature and wellbeing

Editorial by Gavin Saunders Nature and wellbeing – time to take the medicine? Wild nature [...]

ECOS 39(3): Caring for nature in a post-Brexit Wales

Are Welsh Ministers and departments working with or against nature in the Brexit era? Their [...]

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: Nature’s Allies

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

ECOS 38 (6): Lies, damn lies and nature conservation

Wildlife and game groups should find more common ground. Between them they could bring complementary [...]

ECOS 38 (5): Book Review: The Nature Fix

THE NATURE FIX Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative Florence Williams W.W. [...]

The selfish philosophy of nature conservation

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

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): Nature’s class warfare

The middle classes are now holding back conservation. Conservation bodies should appeal to new categories [...]