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Czech scientists create energy from mango pellets in…

Experts from the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology at MENDELU are helping to make use of waste from fruit processing while reducing the consumption of firewood in Cambodia. They use the mango pellets to produce fuel briquettes, which are then used as fuel for households and processing plants. This has a positive impact on both reducing landfill and protecting local forests that suffer from…

21. 11. 2023

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Scientists take samples of driftwood in northern Norway. They aim to find out…

Scientists from FFWT MENDELU have completed a second mission in search of driftwood to the northern coast of Norway. As in 2022, they took samples of driftwood, which will be analysed in the MENDELU dendrochronological and anatomical laboratory. In…

30. 10. 2023
Maples plagued by sooty bark disease, which is also dangerous to humans

Sooty bark disease in Maples is caused by the fungus Cryptostroma corticale. The Sycamore is particularly susceptible. The fungus was apparently introduced to Europe after World War II from the Great Lakes region of North America. For many decades,…

15. 9. 2023
LDF researchers help kick-start forestry in Aragvi, Georgia

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…

28. 8. 2023
FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a new way of using sewage sludge

FFWT 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…

14. 8. 2023
Science team focuses on the decline of seagrasses, important ocean ecosystems

Seagrass 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…

4. 8. 2023
FFWT MENDELU has signed EU Mission Soil Manifesto

By 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 …

27. 7. 2023
EXCELLENTIA project will create a centre for forest ecosystem research at FFWT…

The 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 …

28. 4. 2023
A new MENDELU project aims to bring large carnivores and humans together across…

Mendel 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…

21. 4. 2023
Coppice forest management: doom for the forest or not? Scientists at FFWT…

Botanists, 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…

18. 4. 2023

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