Sir Charles Raymond Burrell, 10th Baronet (born 27 August 1962) is an English landowner, conservationist and founder of the Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale lowland rewilding project in England, which was created in the early 2000s when he stopped conventional farming on 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of land surrounding the ancestral family home at Knepp Castle in West Sussex.
Burrell spent his early years on his parents' farm in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia and then in Australia but returned to England for secondary education.
[1] The estate originally came into the family through Sir Charles Raymond, who made his fortune through the East India Company and bought Knepp in 1787.
[2] Burrell inherited the estate at the age of 21 and managed it using conventional intensive farming for 17 years before starting to convert it using rewilding principles in 2000.
[3] As of January 2023, Burrell is Chair of Foundation Conservation Carpathia, and on the advisory board of The Arcadia Fund, he is on the oversight committee for the Endangered Landscapes and Seascapes Programme.