In Florida, when the environment got out balance, the government decided to license hunters to slaughter snakes (and blows it, but that's another story).

In India, when environmental degradation resulted in the deaths of snakes, at least one man decided to restore the stripped tree cover that had once shielded them from the blazing sun. From The Metro:

[Jadav] Payeng, who was 16 when he began the endeavour, apparently decided to plant the trees in northern India’s Assam region after he found local wildlife had suffered because there was no cover.

Today the site has an amazing 1,360 acres of jungle.

"The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover," he said.

"I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms. It was carnage. I alerted the forest department and asked them if they could grow trees there."

How's that for a life's work? Read the rest here.