Libby Drew
Director
Libby Drew is the Director of our charity the Knepp Wildland Foundation.
The Foundation has been set up to act as a catalyst for nature recovery across Sussex and beyond. It will use the lessons learned from Knepp to provide evidence and inspiration for landscape recovery and support a new generation of rewilders to take this work into the future.
Libby has a background in journalism, social innovation and public engagement. She founded the award-winning non-profit ‘On Our Radar’ that builds community networks to surface hidden stories and put citizens at the forefront of social and environmental change.
She lives on a smallholding in the High Weald and, when not running events, writing bids or rallying land managers, can be found foraging, photographing nature, and chasing after her free-ranging chickens and children.
“It’s such an honour to be building this wonderful Foundation from the ground up. We have a brilliant path ahead of us and I’m particular excited about our role as coordinator for Weald to Waves; a ground-breaking project to establish a 50mile nature corridor across Sussex.
This year, I will also be supporting a complex network of 30 farmers, land owners and partners to development a plan to restore the river Adur, one of the biggest and most polluted rivers in the south east. Both these projects will develop a blueprint for UK landscape recovery and demonstrate a future where nature can thrive alongside food production, housing and our social and cultural lives.”
