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ECOS 46 (4) UCL NATURE AND CONSERVATION SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2026

Conservation in a Connected World: It’s Challenging and Interdisciplinary Despite the somewhat ominous date and [...]

Pigs and Rare Pollinators

Pigs showing promise for wildlife conservation Pollinators are desperately in need of assistance. With the [...]

ECOS Interviews: JAMIE BUXTON-GOULD

Thoughts from influential nature conservationists… Jamie Buxton-Gould What do you do/have you done in nature [...]

ECOS 45 (2.2): Undergraduate Award 2023

The Decline of Swifts in the UK: Causes and solutions BETH CRITCHLEY This article considers [...]

ECOS 45 (2.1): Postgraduate Award 2023

A Clash of Values: Why should we believe in the inherent value of nature? JACK [...]

GOD IS AN OCTOPUS

GOD IS AN OCTOPUS: Love, Loss and a Calling to Nature Ben Goldsmith Bloomsbury Wildlife, [...]

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The People’s Plan for Nature – will it make a difference?

In what sounds like a throwback to Stalinist Russia we now have a People’s Plan [...]

ECOS Interviews: DAVID BLAKE

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

ECOS Interviews: PETER SHIRLEY

Thoughts from influential nature conservationists… PETER SHIRLEY Background In 1987 I moved from commerce to [...]

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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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