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...
While at the Eden Project, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat participated in a three-year project supported by the UK’s Darwin Initiative to build capacity in the various Argentinian institutions responsible for the conservation of the largest remaining fragment of Atlantic...
While working at the Eden Project, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat devised and organised a national workshop to focus on what world class landscape restoration could look like in the context of the regeneration of Cornwall’s 80 km2 china clay mining area (the “Claylands”), in...
While working at the Eden Project, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat was commissioned to develop and deliver a week-long, capacity-building course in tropical forest survey techniques to 30 personnel involved in tropical forest conservation work in the Seychelles. Seychelles is...