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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 40(6): Principles of rewilding – from the heart

This article discusses the challenge of maintaining a social movement for rewilding in the face [...]

ECOS 40(6): The beaver’s tale

Ambushing the return of beavers The beaver’s advocates and foes include occupants of leather benches [...]

ECOS 40(6): Book Review: Rewilding

REWILDING Nathalie Pettorelli, Sarah M. Durant & Johan T. du Toit (Eds.) Cambridge University Press, [...]

ECOS 40 (4): Undergraduate winner 2019: What are our otters eating?

Over the last 40 years populations of the elusive Eurasian Otter (Fig.1) have been increasing [...]

ECOS 40 (4) 2019: Undergraduate runner up: The crash of ash

Ash trees across the UK are dying following the relentless spread of the ‘ash dieback’ [...]

ECOS 40 (4): Postgraduate winner 2019: Great crested newts: the modern canary in the coal mine

In recent years great crested newts have declined rapidly across the UK despite measures in [...]

ECOS 40(3): Book Review: Working With Nature

Jeremy Purseglove Profile Books, 2019, 271 pages £14.99 Hardback, ISBN 9781788161596 Review by James Robertson [...]

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): 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 [...]

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