Balls in the wild

Well farmed snakes aren't actually always straight out of the wild, there's equal parts collection of gravid females and captive breeding from what I understand, so I've assumed that some of the morphs that originate from farms in West Africa likely have captive heritage. Exporters wouldn't be able to meet demand for BPs from outside of Africa without severely damaging the wild populations if they didn't also have come kind of captive breeding program set up.

All genes come from africa. but not all identified or isolated there :D

I've heard several times before of hypos being wild caught and imported so I find it safe to assume this gene likely flows through some wild populations, most likely in a heterozygous form with an occasional recessive. I've also read somewhere in some threads from several years ago, I believe on this forum but possibly elsewhere as well, that there is some sort of belt of land where most of the (WC) pastels were found and several have popped up there, likely inferring that pastels occur in the wild population in that location.