banning breeding
I look at one major impact from a conservationists' standpoint: if you ban the breeding of such species in a state, and others follow, it puts pressure on supplying the demand in areas in which possession is unregulated. Thus, there is more collecting of animals from the wild and impacting populations which could cause severe consequences in the demography of such species...we could end up with snake species harvested in mass numbers (more so than now) and see things like a bottleneck effect like what has occurred in Africa's remaining wild cheetahs ( genetic diversity is very very limited).
just my 0.02 from that perspective...i am a conservationist as well as a reptile keeper, so i look at it from middle grounds and different aspects
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