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But Lawton did not actually see these as an alternative to in-site conservation; he saw them as an addition to that. I think it is true that existing protected habitats are almost always more valuable than newly created habitats, so I hope that we can find a middle course that allows these landscape-scale strategic sites to be developed but does not, in the process, unnecessarily—if it can be otherwise—damage environmental features that could be maintained and protected under the mitigation hierarchy.