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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Tag Archives: conservation

ECOS 38 (1): The role of BANC and ECOS: A space for views, or espousing a view?

As BANC and ECOS move more fully to a web format, discussion continues on the [...]

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ECOS 38 (1): Champions of grassroots conservation: A future for local authority countryside services?

This article discusses key messages in the author’s 2015 book, The Rise and Fall of [...]

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): Planet Earth III? For nature’s sake, no thanks

With so much wildlife sliding into oblivion, we now need a rethink about BBC’s flagship [...]

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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 (2) Rewilding: implications for nature conservation. Chris Sandom

Abstract: Rewilding has fired the imaginations of many, but much misunderstanding remains around what rewilding [...]

ECOS 1980 1 (1) Blue moves at Blean? Christine Bradley

Abstract: Now that the large blue butterfly is almost certainly extinct as a British breeding [...]

ECOS 1980 1 (1) Forward planning in conservation – David Goode

Abstract: It is hard to predict where problems and opportunities will arise, and to be [...]

ECOS 1980 1 (1) F.O.E. Habitat Campaign – Tim Clarke

Abstract: Loss of a rare butterfly species reflects a wider loss of habitats. This has [...]