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...
Future Terrains’ Pete Whitbread-Abrutat worked as part of UN Environment Afghanistan’s in-country team to provide strategic support to the executive office. Projects included: driving the development of MAP-X, a GIS-based platform for investigating natural...
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...
