Dr. Martha O'Hagan-Luff:

Protect it as we do heritage buildings. If we have a 200-year old oak forest, can we have legal protection? We put a value on to say it has a value and for people to recognise all the things. We look at an oak wood and think it is beautiful. We might think of carbon sequestration but we might not think of water filtration. So it is more about recognising the value but to leave it sacrosanct and untouched and that any contribution a business makes is not to excuse it or allow it to do business as usual but rather to pay for damage it might have done in the past. I totally agree that offsetting is a very dangerous concept and one about which I would be very worried too.