Its not about the morphs, that kinda dumb. You are picking your own reasons, and not looking at the big picture.

Its about the knowledge that allows the production of morphs. That is, now there is an army of keepers all armed with the knowledge of how to maintain and produce wild morph ball pythons.

Its also about the facilities that could be used to conserve wild animals. Again, if ever needed.

Its also about the amount of people exposed to any one species, you mentioned ball pythons. In the past, where were very few people in the world that knew what a ball python was, therefore, there would be no support or need to conserve them.

Again, back to the start of this post, at least we know that is there were only a handful of wild ball pythons left, they could be brought into captivity and produced in high numbers, then there would be a chance their offspring could be re-established if there was habitat to release them back into. Cheers

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