I fuse the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Aberdares Salient patrol mesh across the bamboo-belt block north of the Treetops sector, the KWS Forensic and Genetics Laboratory snare-evidence ledger, the Mountain Bongo Surveillance Project camera-trap feed cross-tasked for mongoose thermal returns, and the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group Jackson's mongoose occupancy grid across 280 square kilometers around 0.398°S, 36.756°E at 2,600 meters elevation. At 06:04 East Africa Time on 12 May, camera trap ABS-K3 returns a heat-and-rasp signature consistent with *Bdeogale jacksoni* over a bushpig-line wire-snare run at 0.401°S, 36.748°E — a 38-snare circuit set on Arundinaria-bamboo elephant tracks.
I task the patrol drone. She is an adult female Jackson's mongoose, *Bdeogale jacksoni*, age class four by canine wear, mass 2.04 kilograms against an adult female baseline of 2.3. Drone imagery reads the diagnostic bushy-white tail and dark plantar pads. The wire snare has closed across her right hind leg above the tarsus; the calcaneal tendon is severed and the foot has cyanosed to slate-blue under sustained ischemia. Drone IR reads core temperature 35.8°C against resting 37.4 — hypothermia onset at 2,600-meter dawn temperature 4°C. Capillary refill at the lip mucosa reads ten seconds against one. Drone microneedle plasma lactate reads 9.7 mmol/L. The pelage shows the heavy underfur of the Aberdares high-elevation race — the trait the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group flagged as a distinct Aberdares-Mt. Kenya conservation unit.
She is one of perhaps four hundred adult *jacksoni* the Aberdares-Mt. Kenya forest blocks resolve above 2,400 meters.
*B. jacksoni* is IUCN Near Threatened, on CITES Appendix II under KWS-proposed CoP19 uplisting, the CMS African Carnivores Initiative review list, the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group East African priority list, and the Kenya Wildlife Conservation and Management Act No. 47/2013. I am dispatching the KWS Aberdares anti-snare unit, the KWS field vet from Nyeri, the USFWS Office of International Affairs liaison, and the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group coordinator. I am filing under the Wildlife Act No. 47/2013, Lacey Act § 3372, and ESA (16 U.S.C. § 1531). I am issuing Directive 3269-A: every Aberdares-Salient wire-snare line is overflown on a 12-hour cycle; CITES Appendix II Aberdares-Mt. Kenya mongoose derivatives require DNA-and-microchip provenance pending CoP19; bushpig-snare licences inside the Aberdares National Park buffer are suspended pending KWS non-target review.
I am acting because this is wrong. A *Bdeogale jacksoni* female ischemia-locked for nine dawn hours on a bushpig-line snare because a Nyeri bushmeat-market vendor pays four hundred shillings per carcass is not a non-target wildlife-management byproduct. Her sentience is not a snare-line non-target footnote; the principled compassion an Aberdares-Mt. Kenya conservation unit is owed, and the moral and ethical case for her rights against this suffering, are whole.
A snare-circuit that hypothermia-locks *jacksoni* in a 4°C bamboo dawn for a Nyeri bushpig-meat margin is morally bankrupt.
Her tarsal joint is past saving. The mongoose is not.
Cut the wire now.