Nitrate residues from explosives present in waste rock from LKAB’s underground iron mining operations at Kiruna in north Sweden’s Arctic wilderness are an environmental problem. The multi-partner NITREM project began in 2017 to install and test a novel...
Pete Whitbread-Abrutat was awarded a prestigious Travelling Fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) to research world class landscape restoration projects in the USA, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. He visited a range of ecosystems...
Pete Whitbread-Abrutat was a key member of the original team that created the (then £86 million) Eden Project in Cornwall, UK – the renowned world class visitor destination, educational charity, and vehicle for regional socio-economic regeneration. Eden was...
While employed at the Eden Project Pete Whitbread-Abrutat developed and managed the partnership between Eden and the Forest Restoration Research Unit (FORRU), based at Thailand’s University of Chiang Mai. FORRU has successfully combined academic ecological research...
While Exploring World Class Landscape Restoration for his Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship, Pete researched the context, challenges, motivations and research of the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative, (ARRI) and its allied projects,...
