...and held a visitors’ day to highlight the MOD’s approach to removing unexploded ordnance from Mappleton Beach at Former Air Weapons Range RAF Cowden. The visit also enabled DIO to...
...the fallen timber to dispatch to local sawmills for processing. Re-generating the woodlands While the immediate impact of Storm Arwen has been devastating, from a longer-term forestry perspective we have...
Two pine martens in the wild. [Copyright Iain Leach Photograph]As Deputy Training Safety Officer for Kirkcudbright Training Centre in Dumfries and Galloway, I’ve been spending some of my time on...
...30% of roles, including Area Utility Managers (which are energy managers in practice) are done by women. I’ve always thought that the DIO is the perfect training ground for energy...
...the rank of WO1 I now work in the Full Time Reserve Service as a Training Safety Marshal for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation based on Salisbury Plain. As the job...
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...which had been excavated as part of the Army Basing Programme work to provide facilities for troops returning from Germany. DIO’s industry partner – Landmarc – helped with the task...
...Academy at Sandhurst, MOD Abbey Wood and Defence Munitions Gosport, which are all providing homes for bees. Monitoring bumblebees We also launched a programme with the MOD’s Pembrokeshire Conservation Group,...
...to act as a landmark for vessels making landfall at Akrotiri. The remains we found included several stone-founded structures with evidence of multiple phases suggesting an extended life. Pottery, roofing...
...in British Forces Brunei (BFB)’s jungle training areas to monitor whether training has any impact on the local wildlife. We’ve been working with the Brunei Forestry Department, and the University...