In Yellowstone National Park, the world’s oldest protected area, there are now four times more permanently dry ponds than there were just 16 years ago. To make matters worse, the ponds that do remain harbour less amphibian species and fewer individuals. In many countries there are no regulations regarding taking amphibians from the wild. The pet trade in western countries is a major contributor to the decline of brightly colored tropical species. In many developing countries lack of food leads to the local amphibians being eaten by humans. Frogs and amphibians play an essential role in the environment. Tadpoles keep waterways clean by feeding on algae, and we depend on this water every time we turn on the tap. Adult frogs eat large quantities of insects, including disease vectors that can transmit fatal illnesses to humans. Frogs serve as an important food source to dragonflies, fish, snakes, birds and monkeys, and thus the disappearance of amphibians would have negative effects that would cascade through the ecosystem. Frogs are used in medical research and approximately 10% of the Nobel prizes in physiology and medicine have resulted from investigations that used frogs. When a frog species disappears, so does any promise it holds for improving human medicine.
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The scientific community is now actually allocating significant amount of effort to the problem, with ecologists, epidemiologists, toxicologists, climatologists and breeders all joining in. The general public, however, is for the large part unaware of the problem.  Less than 2% of the world’s population is aware that amphibians are disappearing.
(1) There have not been many groups working to raise awareness of the problem.
(2) Frogs come out on wet rainy nights, and those are times when people do their best to stay inside, so most people rarely see frogs.
(3) Many extinctions occur in remote areas of developing countries, where there are few scientists and little interest from locals, most of whom have to deal with other urgent issues such as feeding themselves. Most importantly though, the environmental education curriculum in public schools is severely lacking and needs to receive

Over 250 people in northern Bangladesh  attended a wedding ceremony between two frogs as part of a rain ritual.  According to the Bengali paper Jugantor. The "bride'' and "groom'' came from two neighbouring villages 110km north of the capital Dhaka, Villagers organised the wedding ceremony because the the monsoons were late to arrive, and the village was suffering water shortages. More than 250 men, women and children came to the wedding. Who all danced and sang. The guests were served a traditional wedding feast of rice, lentils, fish, beef and sweets. The bride and groom were in special wedding dress. They were blessed  in the ceremony and released in a nearby pond afterwards. That night there was rain. I believe it was because of the wedding.