Going out with a bang...Long Winded Post

[Stefan-A]

Also, the decline of snake populations, in the simplest mathematical sense, means that less snakes are going to meet and reproduce. What is the harm in assisting this otherwise natural action?

It's pointless if it doesn't correct the underlying problem. Why are they scarce in the first place? Releasing more snakes might cause the whole population to collapse instead of decline.

[zooplan]

It's pointless if it doesn't correct the underlying problem. Why are they scarce in the first place? Releasing more snakes might cause the whole population to collapse instead of decline.

A wild population may collapse only by 3 reasons:
too less indiviuals
too many predators
too little resources (habitat, food, water)
When a population grows more than the habitat can host, individuals would be forced to migrate.