Mendel University in Brno 

The autumn trip of the STREAM project in 2022 was a demonstration of sustainable forest management. But it also included the first meeting of our university consortium in Mongolia.

The 2022 summer field trip of the STREAM project provided the first information about the forests in the project sites. Scientific and inventory activities were supplemented with lectures and preparation of fencerows for autumn planting.

In the spring of 2019 we went to Mongolia as part of the Erasmus+ project to teach at the Mongolian University of Life Sciences. Both in the classroom and especially in the field. In addition, we also managed lectures with local experts.

As part of the Forestry and Landscape Education Course in Mongolia, we conducted a field trip in the summer of 2019. During this trip, we attended a series of lectures and field training with students and academics from the Mongolian University of Life Sciences and the German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology on the basics of forestry practice.

In the course of the expert project, two missions of Czech experts were carried out; the first in the summer of 2019 and the second in the winter of 2021, during which a series of lectures and field trips were held.

In November 2021, we went to Mongolia to address the preparation of the STREAM project, during which we toured proposed sites on the edge of the Khentii Mountains and selected the most suitable forest stands to implement to demonstrate good forestry practices.

The MENDELU student expedition took us to the well-known sites of the Khentii Mountains, where we continued researching the forest and mapping the permafrost from earlier years.

The MENDELU student expedition was more demanding than ever this year. In total, we spent two months in Mongolia, the first month researching deep in the forests of the Khentii Mountains and the second studying soil and forest contamination around Erdenet and Ulaanbaatar.

This year the MENDELU student expedition was already realized in the late spring in the southern part of the Khtentii Mountains. Its main objective was to research permafrost and forest rejuvenation

This year's MENDELU student expedition had a groundbreaking touch, especially due to the predominance of forestry topics, the large number of participants and the departure from the original geological direction. Its destination was the southern edge of the Khentii Mountains, the Gobi Desert and Lake Khövsgöl.

One of the first student expeditions to Mongolia, mainly aimed at geological research. Its organizers were subsequently at the birth of MENDELU research activities in Mongolia.

During the implementation of the Domogt project (2015-2017), a number of forestry workshops were organized in which Czech experts participated. These were mainly FAO workshop in Sharyn Gol, FAO workshop in Ulaanbaatar and FRDC workshop in Sharyn Gol.

During the implementation of the Domogt project (2015-2017), accompanying work activities were also continuously carried out in Ulaanbaatar.

Although the Domogt project primarily targeted the forests around Sharyn Gol, forestry experts also worked closely with Darkhan University during the project implementation (2015-2017), where they helped to implement additional foil trees for seedling production.

During the implementation of the Domogt project (2015-2017), a number of research trips were undertaken within the forested areas of northern Mongolia to collect new data on the state of local forests. These sites included Bugant, Khövsgöl, Batchiret, Khonin Nuga, Tunkhel, Tujiin Nars, Gorkhi-Terelj and Udleg.

The Zulzaga area is located near Darkhan and enjoys great popularity as a holiday location with pine forests on the sands. During the course of the Domogt project (2015-2017), surveys and new plantings were carried out here to keep the sands stabilized by forest.

During the implementation of the Domogt project (2015-2017), a model of forest management, unparalleled in Mongolia, was built by Czech experts in the forests near Sharyn Gol.