Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
I would so love to hear about somebody trying to replenish the exported wild caught ball pythons with captive hatched ones from the states (or anywhere). It would be awful for them to go extinct in the wild. Anybody else ever wondered about this / have any information?
No need to replenish! They are thriving in the wild.

Why are people always so quick to assume that just because some animals are taken from the wild, then the wild numbers must be at a critical level?

People do this same crap with fish. Locally we are having one of the best Snapper / Grouper fishing seasons in years. Still they are about to install a year long ban on fishing them to increase numbers. As an avid diver, someone who goes down there and sees things with my own eyes every weekend, I can tell you they are full of BS.