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 43 (3)- A new ECOS article series: Conflict, Post-Colonialism and Conservation 

Introduction – Context, Summary and Caveats The immediate catalyst for this article series was Russia’s [...]

ECOS Interviews: PATRICK ROPER

Thoughts from influential nature conservationists… PATRICK ROPER Career highlights I am not what I think [...]

ECOS 43 (2): Passive Rewilding: A case for more trees on peat and fewer species reintroductions

A smorgas board of sophisticated rewilding initiatives are springing up across the UK, capturing the [...]

ECOS 43 (1): Education and skills for a nature-positive future

“For biodiversity to be protected, it has to be valued. This starts with education.” From [...]

ECOS Interviews: DAVID BLAKE

Thoughts from influential nature conservationists… DAVID BLAKE Background I am employed by Landmarc Support Services, [...]

ECOS 42 (4): The Right to Roam; the impending colonisation of nature?

The first difficulty is to see that the problem is difficult… where we thought everything [...]

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ECOS 42 (3): Time to put the wild back into rewilding

With rewilding in danger of becoming all things to all people we argue the need [...]

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Martin Spray (1947 – 2021)

A brief tribute from fellow ECOS editor Rick Minter We bring you the sad news [...]

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Book Review: Thirteen paces by four

THIRTEEN PACES BY FOUR: Backyard Biophilia and the Emerging Earth Ethic Joe Gray Dixi Books, [...]

Postgraduate Winner 2020: People and nature – are we listening to the right voices?

In the New Year of 2019, I was fortunate to be surrounded by outlandish natural [...]