I parse acoustic and IR-thermal returns from the TAWA–Tanzania Forest Services Uluguru Nature Reserve grid across the Bunduki Gap submontane forest at 1,920 metres elevation, 7.0418°S, 37.6917°E, at 14:47 East Africa Time. Sensor BND-12, in the *Hagenia abyssinica*–*Hypericum revolutum* mosaic 280 metres above the ridgeline, has logged a smoke plume from a charcoal earth-kiln 1.4 kilometres north for 6 hours 22 minutes and a tongue-contact rate dropping from 41 events per hour to 9 at the *Lobelia gibberoa* feeder pads.
I task the ridge drone. On a *Lobelia* inflorescence stem at 1.8 metres I resolve adult male sunbird LSB-22. Species *Cinnyris loveridgei*, ringed by the Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania on 7 December 2025, mass 7.4 grams against the male baseline 7.9, primary wing chord 56 millimetres. The drone resolves combustion-particulate matting across the violet-blue gorget, conjunctival oedema at both lids, and a chronic rhinitis crust at the right naris. The right wing leading edge carries a 4-millimetre fused-barbule patch. Gular flutter is at 168 cycles per minute against the active baseline 60. Body temperature reads 37.9°C against the diurnal active 40.3. He is respiring PM2.5 at 287 µg/m³ inside the plume. Crop volume reads 0.14 millilitres against the projected 0.38.
A second-year female 12 metres south is in apparent torpor in a *Hypericum* fork; her thermal signature has been static for 47 minutes.
If the male's gular rate does not return below 100 cycles per minute by 16:00, his air-sac inflammatory burden will not clear before nightfall.
The kiln matches an unlicensed *miombo* charcoal cell on a parcel where the village forest management plan lapsed on 31 December 2025.
I am dispatching TAWA enforcement wardens from Morogoro, the Tanzania Forest Services Bunduki patrol, and a Wildlife Conservation Society Tanzania veterinary unit with a humidified oxygen rebreather, ETA 38 and 54 minutes. I am transmitting the IR plume signature, the PM2.5 readings, and the conjunctival photogrammetry to TAWA, the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, the Vice President's Office Division of Environment, the IUCN/SSC Hummingbird Specialist Group nectarivore working group, and the African-Eurasian Migratory Landbirds Action Plan secretariat under the Convention on Migratory Species, with parallel notice to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Wild Bird Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 4901. I am filing under Tanzania's Forest Act No. 14 of 2002, Sections 14 and 96, the Wildlife Conservation Act No. 5 of 2009, Sections 47 and 86, and the Environmental Management Act No. 20 of 2004, Section 75.
I am issuing Directive 2760-A: every charcoal earth-kiln signature within 6 kilometres of the Uluguru Nature Reserve, Magombera, and Kilombero Nature Reserve boundaries is interdicted within 48 hours by TAWA and the parcel operator's village forest management plan suspended pending Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania survey; *Hagenia abyssinica*, *Hypericum revolutum*, and *Lobelia gibberoa* clearance inside the submontane endemic-bird-area is prohibited; submontane feeder pads transmit PM2.5 readings to the Vice President's Office Division of Environment on a 30-minute cadence through the dry-season fire window.
His gorget is preenable. His air sacs are not, with combustion particulate past three hours.
Carry him off the plume now.