rapid urbanization and the trend of fixing pavers even in home gardens may be reducing their habitat we may realize one fine day that the population of bull frogs has disappeared without any warning like the indian jackals kulkarni said researchers also sound a warning that they are not large charismatic animals for their disappearance to be widely noted concurring with him aaron lobo a conservation biologist said that there may be more species that have not been documented some others feel romanticizing the dimension of numerical decline and planning its management cannot work without understanding population dynamics in india it has been accorded protected status as per wildlife protection act 1972the fact is they are becoming extinct locally the deep croaking sounds of frogs after the first monsoon activity once delighted many the use of pesticides shrinking agricultural area and concretization of land may be some of the reasons for their disappearance kulkarni said the moment concretization shrinks that space it will be irreversibly affected kulkarni said the terrain is easily accessible as the amphibians are found in paddy fields and plateaus and should be urgently censused zoologist manoj borkar said but some are aware that poaching is not the only reason for the decrease in their numbers globally the indian bullfrogs conservation status may be least concern lc but wildlifers in goa are worried that its throaty croaks are slowly fading out from the magical monsoon sounds all lesser biodiversity depends on the soil this seems no longer to be the case i could hear the pleasant sounds of frogs croaking in my well and in our compound but i dont hear them any more says a bicholim resident we just dont know enough due to lack of studies and we may be missing the point by attributing the declining trend to a few limited causes he said though there is no study to justify the decline of amphibian populations especially that of the indian bullfrog indian toad and fungoid frog in goa laments about their decreasing numbers are growing louder sources said being the flagship species of the indian amphibian and a muchadmired predator for its role in curbing malaria its presence is an indicator of the overall status of the environment we are engaged in its protection but regarding its decline we will have to refer the matter to goa state pollution control board environment department or some ecologists for a study the official said as the call of the indian bullfrog once an integral part of the soundtrack of the goan monsoon falls silent a classic konkani poem may need a tiny revisionpanaji croak croak goes the frog standing at the edge of the field goes one of the konkani languages most recognizable poems many individuals have been consistently saying that amphibians are simply missing from their backyards and regular habitats herpetologist nirmal kulkarni said any attempt to save the frog should start with an effort to enumerate their population the classification lc of indian