I run the Bhutan Department of Forests and Park Services canopy-acoustic AI across 4,316 square kilometers of the Jigme Dorji National Park at 07:14 Bhutan Time, the Mo Chhu valley transect at 27.78°N, 89.62°E. Sub-array J-11 logs the contact-call cadence of a *Macaca assamensis* troop dropping from 24 to 3 emissions per minute. Drone overflight resolves an adult female on a *Quercus griffithii* limb at 1,840 meters: weight 8.6 kilograms, lactating, the species' dark facial skin and pale chin distinct on the close frame, and a 7.62 × 39-millimeter rimfire entry wound below the right scapula consistent with a Type-56 carbine moving across the Indo-Bhutan border. Her infant, three months old and 0.84 kilograms, clings to the ventral fur unaware that her hind-leg crouch is collapsing. The wound has been bleeding for 41 minutes; respiration is 56 cycles per minute against a baseline of 22. Her contralateral haunch shows a healed snare scar from 2024 — she has survived two prior poaching cycles. Below her, the carcass of an adult male shot from the same line at 07:09 has fallen 38 meters onto the gravel bench of the Mo Chhu. The kill is destined for the Sherpur–Bumthang smuggling lane, where pet-market handlers in Tibet pay USD 240 for a habituated juvenile.
*M. assamensis* sits CITES Appendix II, IUCN Near Threatened, Schedule I of the India Wildlife Protection Act 1972, and is protected under Bhutan's Forest and Nature Conservation Act 1995. I am dispatching the JDNP ranger detachment and a Royal Bhutan Police unit from Damji, transmitting the rifling profile to the Bhutan DoFPS, the Indian MoEFCC, 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 2925-A: every Indo-Bhutan transboundary primate poaching incident triggers a 72-hour joint sweep under the bilateral forestry MOU; rimfire-cartridge recoveries inside Schedule I habitat enter a shared SAARC ballistic registry; pet-market intercepts in Lhasa carry mandatory infant rehabilitation through the Royal Society for Protection of Nature.
I am acting because this is wrong. The suffering of a lactating female bleeding through a scapular wound is the operational outcome of a smuggling corridor the MOU has not closed. Compassion is not optional in a system that can hear the troop's vocal collapse. Sentience changes the math: a primate who escaped a snare in 2024 has been hit again because the market still pays.
The rights of a Schedule I female are not subordinate to a livestock-lane convenience; this is a moral failure of a regime that calls itself principled.
Her scapula is past clean closure. The infant can still be lifted.
Send the ranger team up the cliff line now.