Georgia’s Aragvi – a newly established protected landscape area (PLA) of almost 100,000 hectares – is located in three separate valleys about 80 km north of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. “We are working in an area with harsh winters, sultry summers…
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LDF researchers help kick-start forestry in Aragvi, Georgia
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FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a new way of using sewage sludge
14. 8. 2023FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a use for sewage sludge, an unavoidable by-product of the wastewater treatment process. By mixing stabilized sludge with other waste materials, glauconite and biochar, they obtained a substrate usable in forestry… -
Science team focuses on the decline of seagrasses, important ocean ecosystems
4. 8. 2023Seagrass beds are considered ocean rainforests. They are some of the richest marine ecosystems and play an important ecological role in the world of the seas and oceans. Globally, however, seagrass meadows are declining, with a species of seagrass… -
FFWT MENDELU has signed EU Mission Soil Manifesto
27. 7. 2023By signing the Mission Soil manifesto, the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology (FFWT) has committed itself to the protection and restoration of soil at a time when 60% of the soil in the territory of the European Union states is considered … -
MENDELU in Mongolia helps with the implementation of the Czech tourist signage…
11. 7. 2023Mongolia will use the Czech system of marking tourist routes. The Mongolian Tourist Association (MWA) has signed a contract with the Czech Tourist Club in Bogd Khan Mountain, one of the oldest protected areas in the world. The sprawling capital… -
School Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny and Forests of the Czech…
23. 6. 2023The Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on 23 June by Tomáš Vrška, Director of the Masaryk Forest School in Křtiny, and Dalibor Šafařík, Director General of the State Enterprise Forests of the Czech Republic. The agreement was created with the… -
EXCELLENTIA project will create a centre for forest ecosystem research at FFWT…
28. 4. 2023The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology MENDELU has signed a grant agreement with the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission for the EXCELLENTIA project financed by the Horizon Europe Programme. The prestigious five-year project … -
A new MENDELU project aims to bring large carnivores and humans together across…
21. 4. 2023Mendel University in Brno is launching a new international project Interreg Central Europe – LECA, which will support the coexistence of humans and large carnivores in the Carpathian region. The project aims to harmonise international monitoring of… -
Coppice forest management: doom for the forest or not? Scientists at FFWT…
18. 4. 2023Botanists, pedologists and other scientists at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology have been researching coppice, also sprout or low forest, for the past five years. A coppice forest is usually created after a tree is harvested and new…