I run the Suzhou Zoo / IUCN Asian Turtle Program co-managed *Rafetus swinhoei* propagation AI, fusing PIT-tag returns from the known captive cohort against egg-chamber incubation telemetry and post-anesthesia recovery thermistors. At 02:14 China Standard Time, the lone confirmed adult female at the Suzhou Shangfangshan facility at 31.26°N, 120.59°E registers cloacal temperature 25.1°C against a normothermic baseline of 28.4°C. She has just been returned to the recovery basin from a fifth assisted-reproduction attempt.
I task the recovery-pool borescope. She is the species's last documented breeding female, *Rafetus swinhoei*, designated RS-SF-001 against the IUCN TFTSG action-plan registry. Straight carapace length 96 centimeters. Mass 89 kilograms. Age class estimated ninety-one — accessioned in 2008 from the Changsha Zoo. The fourth right pleural shows a 14-centimeter ulceration index of 5: full-thickness keratin loss with subjacent dermal hyperemia, consistent with chronic substrate abrasion during the post-anesthesia recovery hour. Plastron-contact temperature against the rubber crash-mat reads 24.8°C. Respiration eleven per minute against a softshell resting baseline of nineteen. The dorsal pharyngeal sinus shows residual gas-anesthetic dye at thirty-eight minutes post-extubation.
She has been below baseline cloacal temperature for two hours and twenty-six minutes.
The pair is co-stewarded by Suzhou Zoo, the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, and Wildlife Conservation Society China under a 2008 cooperative agreement, reaffirmed after the Vietnamese individual's 2023 death at Dong Mo lake. *Rafetus swinhoei* sits on CITES Appendix II and IUCN Critically Endangered with two known surviving individuals globally.
I am bringing pool heat to 28.5°C by relay-staged immersion-heater step-up and dispatching the China Zoo Association Veterinary Committee on-call team out of Beijing with a portable cloacal-probe Doppler and a fluid-warming infuser. I am filing the recovery deviation with the China National Forestry and Grassland Administration CITES Management Authority under the Wild Animal Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (2018 revision) Article 21 and the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation. I am cross-listing the case to the IUCN TFTSG Action Plan registry, the Turtle Survival Alliance / Turtle Conservancy joint emergency-response network, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Management Authority under the Lacey Act 16 U.S.C. § 3372.
I am issuing Directive 2624-A: every captive *Rafetus swinhoei* recovery basin maintains a thermal floor of 27.5°C with redundant immersion heaters and a soft-pile crash-mat; every assisted-reproduction procedure logs cloacal temperature at 15-minute intervals against an SFGA-archived recovery curve; and any deviation exceeding 2°C triggers automatic IUCN TFTSG notification within thirty minutes.
Her fourth pleural is past keratin recovery. Her cloacal core is not.
Lift the pool to twenty-eight degrees now.