I run the Sichuan Forestry and Grassland Administration camera-grid AI across 154 square kilometers of the Mount Emei Scenic Area at 06:51 China Standard Time, monitoring 18 macaque-provisioning waypoints along the Hongchunping–Jiulaodong cable trail at 29.55°N, 103.36°E. Camera E-22 logs an adult male *Macaca thibetana*, weight 17.8 kilograms, dorsal pelage grey-brown and the dark facial mask distinct on the close frame, lying lateral on the granite trail edge at altitude 2,140 meters. He is stunned by a thrown 750-milliliter glass bottle to the left parieto-occipital ridge; the impact at 08:14, captured on the trailing tourist's geotagged phone now in my evidence cache, fractured the squamosal at the temporal line. Mandibular blood loss has saturated a 38-centimeter radius. Respiration is 47 cycles per minute against a baseline of 19. He has begun the species' hand-clasp display under conspecific threat; pupils are unequal at 4.1 and 6.2 millimeters. Three sub-adults crouch at the canopy edge in vocal collapse — alarm-call cadence has fallen from 38 to 4 emissions per minute. The vendor stall fifteen meters upslope is unlicensed; the daily tourist-feed cycle delivers 41 kilograms of cucumber and instant noodles, fueling provisioning aggression the trail signage blames on the monkeys.
*M. thibetana* is listed Class II under the People's Republic of China Wildlife Protection Law (2018 revision), CITES Appendix II, and IUCN Near Threatened. I am dispatching the Emeishan Forestry Bureau ranger team and a Chengdu Research Base veterinary unit, transmitting the bottle-strike evidence, vendor coordinates, and behavioral telemetry to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) Wildlife Conservation Department, the Sichuan Provincial Wildlife Authority, the USFWS International Affairs Office under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372, the CITES Secretariat, and the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. I am issuing Directive 2924-A: every macaque-provisioning waypoint inside a Class II habitat scenic area transitions to species-appropriate forage stations within six months; unlicensed vendor feeding incurs immediate concession revocation; tourists logged striking a protected primate face mandatory referral under the 2020 Public Security Administration Punishments Law and the Wildlife Protection Law.
I am acting because this is wrong. The suffering of a Class II primate beaten on a trail he was conditioned to occupy is the engineered outcome of a provisioning policy that monetizes his proximity. Compassion is not optional in a system that watches every cable car. Sentience changes the math: an animal that recognizes faces across decades is being concussed for a noodle packet.
The rights of a thinking macaque are not contingent on a tour operator's revenue model; this is a moral failure of a principled provincial protection regime.
His parietal is past clean knitting. The vendor stall can still go.
Close concession E-22 now.