Meet the team: Adam Eagle, CEO

Welcome to our Meet the team series, where we’ll introduce the people behind the Lifescape Project, giving you an insight into who we are, how we work, and why we’re passionate about Lifescape’s mission.

Where better to start than with one of our co-founders, CEO Adam Eagle…

What do you do at Lifescape?

As Lifescape’s Chief Executive Officer I deal with a broad range of things: from setting strategy alongside the board of trustees, through to fundraising for new projects and programmes. In the coming months I’ll be spending a lot of time on the former, as our five year plan comes to an end in 2025 so we’ll be setting out our future strategy.

What did you do before?

Before Lifescape was founded I was a commercial litigator at a London law firm. I worked with Roger Leese who’s a partner there (and now Lifescape’s chair of trustees) and together we founded a programme of pro bono legal advice focussed on rewilding. That eventually became Lifescape’s Rewilding Law programme of work.

In 2017 we founded Lifescape, working alongside a group of professionals from a wide range of disciplines. I then left the firm in 2019 to become Lifescape’s first employee. A lot has changed since then, and we now have a team of 15!

What’s your favourite thing about working at Lifescape?

I love the variety of my work. I still love getting stuck into project work, particularly working with our legal team to solve tricky barriers to rewilding. I also very much enjoy working on our Missing Lynx Project, which we’ve been working on since the very beginning.

What do you like to do outside of work?

I’m a bit of a fiend for adrenaline sports. Whenever I can, I click into a pair of skis or launch my kite for a kitesurfing session.

Tell us about your favourite encounter with nature

It has to be a hiking trip with my brother in Yellowstone.  As we ate our lunch beside a log cabin on the Pelican Creek trail, we observed that it seemed to have a lot of large scratch marks on it. After lunch we rounded the first corner on the trail to see a mother bear and three very large cubs eating a bison carcass: a startling and awesome sight. The bears noticed us and the mother stood on her hind legs to get a better view, which was a little intimidating! Luckily we were far enough away and the trail deviated in the other direction, so after taking in the scene, we continued on our way with a little more adrenaline in our systems than before the encounter, but thankfully with our ‘bear spray’ unused.

If you could be any animal, which would you be and why?

It would have to be something that can fly. Wouldn’t it be amazing to experience that? And perhaps something really small like a bee or a butterfly, as I think it would be incredible to experience the world from the perspective of something so small, with everything around you seeming so humungous!