My point about bringing up them eating them was that they aren't going to spend money (that they don't have) to save a food source such as a ball python. They will just find another food source.
Assuming (and I could be wrong) that the African Nations that have wild populations of BP's don't fund a breeding program...who will?
Yes we have a big community of herpers willing to donate money if it came down to it...but will it be enough?

BILLIONS are donated to countries in Africa and there are still children starving, dying...
Kids don't have food, medicine, shelter? Young women don't have access to feminine products. Rape, starvation, everything horrible you can think of. And still it's not enough.

You mean to tell me you think people will donate money to save a species of snake, when they won't even save fellow human beings? I mean, I love snakes...but if it came down to saving the ENTIRE population of BP's...or saving 100 children, I'm gonna have to go with the children. And I would think that any other decent human being would be the same....