Amorous slug, orange snake found

  • 22/04/2010

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Vast tracts of Borneo yet to be biologically explored KUALA LUMPUR: A lungless frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species found in Borneo since 2007 in a project to conserve one of the oldest rain forests in the world. A report by the global conservation group WWF on the discoveries also calls for protecting the threatened species and equatorial rain forest on Borneo, the South China Sea island that is the world's third-largest and is shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. The aim is to conserve 220,000 sq. km. of rain forest that was described by Charles Darwin as