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): Exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of environmental volunteering

Is there a link between people’s engagement with nature-based activities and their health? While research [...]

ECOS 39(6): ‘A magnet for those who need it’ Woodland social enterprises and work with in-need groups

A new piece of research has shed light on the valuable work of a growing [...]

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(4): End of the rainbow?

A road trip through the Pyrenees to the Sierra Nevada observing both animal and human [...]

ECOS 39(4): Undergraduate highly commended: Marine noise pollution – A (quiet) call to action

Many marine animals like fish and whales rely on acoustic signals to communicate and to [...]

ECOS 39 (3): ‘The city that hates trees’ – Standing up to the Sheffield Street-Tree Slaughter

Mass felling of healthy street-trees in Sheffield has led to public uproar and a realisation [...]

ECOS 39 (3): Meat: The Alpha and Omega of Extinction

In assessing the various causes of species’ extinction, humans need to recognise the dominant influence [...]

ECOS 39 (2): Conservation by Committee

‘It has come to my attention’, the heavy-set man in the green pullover paused for [...]

Does evidence quality complacency hamper conservation?

The problems of evidence complacency are beginning to be recognised. Just as important are the [...]

ECOS 39 (1): Continuous Cover Forestry and Rewilding

Better understanding of Continuous Cover Forestry could steer much UK forestry practice towards the wider [...]