NATURAL PROGRESSION , Sir, The excellent article on valuing natural capital was all the more pertinent when read alongside the plaintiveletter from “long retired agricultural practitioner” Mr Price [page 16 and Feedback, April). Because of the controversy that placing a value on nature has caused, | fear that Mr Price would fail to recognise the opportunities that this new subject may create due to a perceived threat to the traditional pattern of howrural surveyors operate, Therise of the environment within the public agenda is something rural practitioners cannot ignore. We must factor in environmental enterprise in how we provide our professional services to the private sector for the public benefit. It’s not just all about valuation practices, but also applying a more innovative mindset in how rural surveyors en occupiers into nudgin gage land owners and g them into strategic thinking, with the too s to farm short-term commodities alongsid natural capital. é nurturing long-term Rob Yorke FRICS, Abergavenny, Wales