Back from prospection for the Educate for Life project in Jambiani, Zanzibar

Two of BINCO’s core members spent 10 days on the Island of Zanzibar to gather the necessary information to set up a future educational project in a series of schools in Jambiani. They saw lots of nice things and talked to several interesting people…


Cinematographic report of the expedition to French Guyana

BINCO organised an ES (Express Survey) in August 2008 to Savane-Roche Virginie, a small granite outcrop in French Guyana. A new road towards Regina now provides easy access to the outcrop and the main aim of the expedition was to perform a baseline…


Another new species from French Guiana

The discovery of an additional new species form the Roche-la-Virginie (French Guiana) has been published in the journal Zootaxa. The new species is a spider that is adapted to the microhabitat created by the leaves of Bromelias, hence its name…


First BINCO Newsletter

We are very proud to present our first Binco newsletter. If you want to receive the next newsletter, fill in your name at the bottom of the frontpage and sign up. You can also send us an email (info@binco.eu) and we’ll put you on the list.…


Announcement BINCO Quiz

On Saturday, January 14 we organize our first quiz in the Elizabeth refter in the ‘Heilig Hart Instituut’ in Heverlee. Subscribe a team (15 euros) via info@binco.eu. This quiz is organized for the benefit of an new educational project that we will…


BINCO visits the Oxford Museum of Natural History

During the first week of November, three of our members visited Oxford to study the collected insects from Cusuco National Park in Honduras. This collection was never before studied in detail and proved to be worth checking out. The pictures above…


BINCO gives a morning fieldcourse

The nature conservation organisation ‘Natuurpunt’ asked us to teach a field course in invertebrate surveying.  It was a successful morning with the right animals at the right time and at the right place… To be repeated!