While a postgraduate research student at the University of Exeter’s Camborne School of Mines, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat devised, developed and managed a four-year research programme investigating the factors affecting the successful establishment of trees on...
While working for the Eden Project, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat devised and organised a half-day workshop in partnership with the social conservation charity Landlife, as part of the Society for Ecological Restoration International’s European Conference in France. The...
While Exploring World Class Landscape Restoration for his Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat spent several days in Brazil’s Amazon basin researching rainforest restoration after mining. He visited MRN’s Trombetas...
While working at the Eden Project for the Post-Mining Alliance, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat devised and organised a week-long, field-based workshop in Cornwall to explore the role of tourism in the re-use of old mine sites and the regeneration of post-mining communities,...
The Eden Project was constructed in a worked out china clay pit. There was no soil, so 85,000 tonnes of artificial soils were created from recycled mineral wastes and composted green and bark wastes. Working in partnership with the University of Reading’s Horticulture...
