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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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 [...]

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 (6): Michael Gove – what next?

The prospect of leaving the European Union has created uncertainty and concern about the future [...]

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ECOS 38 (6): Assessing impacts of offshore wind turbines

The data and models used to claim no effects from offshore wind farms on birds [...]

ECOS 38 (6): #Rewilding

Twitter debates reveal the prejudices and the passion surrounding moves to embrace rewilding.    Over [...]

ECOS 38 (3): Book Reviews: Confessions of a recovering environmentalist

CONFESSIONS OF A RECOVERING ENVIRONMENTALIST Paul Kingsnorth Faber & Faber 2017 284 pages ISBN: 978-0-571-32969-4 [...]

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

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

ECOS 38 (4): The Student Takeover

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few”.1 [...]

The human element in farmland management

How studying beetles led me to study people My undergraduate dissertation on beneficial beetles in [...]