Protect fossils from hammer-wielding tourists | Letter

Jill White responds to an editorial calling for fossils to be given legally protected national-treasure statusI write this while sitting on Charmouth beach in Dorset with my required reading of the Saturday Guardian, as I do regularly. Your editorial (The Guardian view on the export of fossils: they deserve national treasure status, 21 August) produced a hollow laugh as – this being the centre of fossil hunting on the Jurassic Coast – I am surrounded by armies of hammer-wielding tour