Snake Charmers are going out of business in India

I have read about this a couple of times now. India passed a wildlife protection law in 1972, and they are just recently getting around to enforcing it. Poverty is a huge problem in India, as it is, and many of the "Snake Charmers" are among the poorest. With the likelihood of going to jail for practicing their craft, snake charmers are demanding that the government give them jobs so that they can survive. I have mixed feelings about this, many (80,000 per annum) are killed during this kind of performance, but I agree that humans deserve to survive. What about jobs doing conservation field-work, or research on wilderness conservation. If the snake-charmers aren't literate or skilled in some way, well then I guess they are screwed...