Restoring the Amazon rainforest after mining; Brazil

Restoring the Amazon rainforest after mining; Brazil

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...
European workshop on post-mining regeneration through tourism

European workshop on post-mining regeneration through tourism

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,...
Cornwall China Claylands Restoration Workshop; UK

Cornwall China Claylands Restoration Workshop; UK

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...
Best practice mine closure workshop; South Africa

Best practice mine closure workshop; South Africa

While working for the Eden Project’s Post-Mining Alliance, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat was part of the organising committee for a two-day, multi-stakeholder best practice mine closure workshop in Johannesburg co-hosted with the University of Witwatersrand Centre for...
Roots in Clay photographic art project; Eden Project, UK

Roots in Clay photographic art project; Eden Project, UK

While working for the Eden Project’s Post-Mining Alliance, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat devised and facilitated a photographic art project between St. Austell’s Poltair School – the main school serving Cornwall’s China clay mining villages – and Eden’s Post-Mining Alliance....