The
British Association of Nature Conservationists
Established 1979
Welcome
to BANC!
We're an independent organisation which takes
a
critical look at
the world of nature conservation. We analyse what's going on, debate
the values behind conservation policies and legislation, and we put new
ideas on the agenda. We are not a corporate body: we are a network of
conservation practitioners, academics and interested individuals. We
simply focus
our members' views, giving them a platform for 'challenging
conservation'.
Many matters concerning the natural environment and its conservation
are controversial. We tackle the thorny issues, questioning dogma where
it exists. So, for example, we discuss attitudes towards alien species,
we examine the impacts of renewable energy sources, and we challenge
target-obsessed approaches to conservation. We stress conservation's
social, economic and political
dimensions, because these are where conservation policies meet the real
world.
We run workshops and conferences, commission books and
reports, and publish the respected journal, ECOS.
Welcome
to ECOS!
To obtain your copy of ECOS, you
simply join BANC - but think of it as a subscription if you like.
Annual personal membership costs £22. This gets you three
issues of ECOS, each around one hundred pages, packed with sharp and
understandable articles, photos and cartoons. ECOS is unorthodox and
multi-disciplinary, and people read it for its analysis, ideas and
inspiration. But don't just take our word for it ...
"ECOS has
lived up to
its name: it has expanded into art, urban centres, wildlands and
community health, with doubtless more horizons to cross. It blends
vision with pragmatics through cheerful criticism and a dose of
cynicism. In effect it has created a family. Long may it reign."
Tim
O'Riordan, Professor
of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.
