Back from prospection for the Educate for Life project in Jambiani, Zanzibar
February 20, 2012International Projects
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
January 24, 2012International Projects
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
January 12, 2012International Projects,Publications,Discoveries
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!