Congratulations Clinton! If I were a Goan living in Goa, I might have asked the very same question. You have adequately and convincingly answered it.
If I may make a suggestion. Those who can understand your explanation are probably those who will not hunt frogs and eat frog meat. They are educated and well read enough. You need to make a much simpler case with topical and situational examples (understandable by even the unlettered Goan) of how hunting of frogs have made an adverse impact. For example you may say something like: Frogs are eaten by snakes. Those snakes are then happy enough to eat rats which are found in rice paddies as their second meal. If they do not get frogs to eat, which are their main meal, the snakes look for rats that are found in houses and properties next to homes. Ask any one living in Bindikoddem near the Sal River in Benaulim. Also talk to people near the chapel in Dramapur in Cuncolim. They will tell you how more snakes than ever, have been seen near their homes. These snakes were never found in such places before. I remember about 10 to 12 years ago, you came on Goacom and talked about saving the River Sal where it was most polluted in Benaulim. You made a good case but you were a prophet before your time and a mere boy in age. In our minds we laughed at this young punk try to take on environmental matters that were too big for his britches. It turned out that you matured but kept at it and now fools who came to scoff remain to pray. Many thanks for what you are doing for the environment in Goa and all power to you to keep up the good work. Roland. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Clinton Vaz <klint...@gmail.com> wrote: > also available on my blog > http://klintvaz.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-save-frog.html > > *Why Save A Frog?* > > /A few reasons and some important information for those that think frogs are > not threatened and not on the decline../