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JAKARTA, DEC. 22. Scientists have found new fish and insect species, including a monster cockroach, living in caves in Indonesia's remote East Kalimantan province, the group announced today. Led by the U.S.-based organisation The Nature Conservancy, the team said the area where the new species were discovered was threatened by environmental degradation, and called for government protection. ``In just five weeks, the expedition team discovered numerous new species previously unknown to science. Who knows what else is out there?'' said the Conservancy's programme manager for East Kalimantan, on the Indonesian side of Borneo Island. The team surveyed four cave systems in the Sangkulirang Peninsula of East Kalimantan. "This area appears to have the largest number of endemic species of any ecosystem on Borneo,'' the manager said. The group discovered at least five new insect species, including a ``monster cockroach,'' a ``micro-crab,'' and a giant millipede. It also discovered several fish species, two new snail species and a number of new plants.
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