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ECOS 38 (2): Bats and wind turbines – what do we really know?

Large wind turbines are often blamed for mortality and declines in bats, whilst developers claim [...]

ECOS 38 (2): Not only but also

Environment and wildlife groups are busy trying to influence policies before and after the election [...]

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ECOS 38 (2): Pevensey Levels – a booming future?

New agri-environment payments and policies will hopefully deliver a vision of restored habitats and iconic [...]

ECOS 38 (1): Rewilding – A Process or a Paradigm?

Teasing out the definitions and meanings of rewilding may reveal the variety of ways the [...]

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ECOS 38 (1): Hard Brexit – Soft Rewilding?

Ideological challenges to nature conservation are nothing new, but now they can take different guises [...]

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ECOS 38 (1): Wild boar in the Dean – welcome back?

Unofficially released wild boar have been changing the physical and political landscape of the Forest [...]

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ECOS 37 (3/4) Brexit and nature – looking for silver linings. Mike Townsend

Abstract: Leaving the European Union is likely to have significant repercussions for nature and land [...]

ECOS 37 (1) Spring 2016. Flood management and nature – can rewilding help? Steve Carver

Abstract: Can fewer sheep, more trees, restoring rivers to their floodplains and reintroducing beavers help [...]

ECOS 37 (1) Spring 2016. What would Brexit mean for nature? Mike Townsend

Abstract: Very little of the debate around the EU referendum has considered the impacts on [...]

ECOS 36 (3/4) Iran’s greenest government ever. Janet MacKinnon

Abstract: On 17 November 2015, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a 15 [...]