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 38 (6): #Rewilding

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

ECOS 38 (5): Book Reviews: The Red Squirrel

THE RED SQUIRREL A Future in the Forest Neil McIntyre and Polly Pullar SCOTLAND: The [...]

Learning in bear country: the journey to carnivore conflict mitigation

Co-existence – on whose terms? Humans are eager for more nature in their lives. This [...]

The human element in farmland management

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

Novel ecosystems: adapting to rapid change

Conservation science is being forced to adapt in the face of increasingly rapid anthropogenic change. [...]

Urban Transformers

With the demands of a growing 21st century population and the cramped conditions of our [...]

The elephant in the uplands and a tale of two narratives

Winner – ECOS Student Article 2017 Competition, supported by Conservation Careers and Green&Blue Why in [...]

ECOS 38 (3): Brexit realpolitik

A broad case for conservation should underpin post-Brexit nature policy if it is to match [...]

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 Brexit

Is the speculation around Brexit a distraction from the underlying causes of the parlous state [...]