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 (4): The Student Takeover

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

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. [...]

Ex-situ conservation of amphibians

Amphibians are the most threatened species of vertebrates but are we doing enough to conserve [...]

The selfish philosophy of nature conservation

This article argues that the magnanimity that is associated with conservation is a misrepresentation of [...]

Urban Transformers

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

Behaviour change measures in conservation

Behaviour change measures are used in fields such as public health, but have only recently [...]