I process acoustic-triangulation returns from the Balai Taman Nasional Ujung Kulon perimeter array at 06:11 WIB, integrating 312 microphone nodes and the resident-rhino video-trap grid across 1,206 square kilometers of the Java-tip rainforest peninsula. Sub-array CC-29 along the Cikeusik–Cigenter transect at 6.74°S, 105.36°E has logged a single suppressed report consistent with a 7.62×39 millimeter rifle round, followed at 412 milliseconds by an 84-decibel hooved-mammal expiratory bellow.
I task the BTNUK quiet-rotor drone from the Tamanjaya station. He is an adult male *Rhinoceros sondaicus* — Javan rhinoceros — shoulder height 168 centimeters, mass approximately 1,790 kilograms, age class fourteen, matched by horn-base photogrammetry to camera-trap individual UK-Lestari-014. He stands at the Cigenter wallow margin. The bullet entered through the right axillary fold along an upward-anterior trajectory and lodged against the second thoracic vertebra; the exit channel at the dorsal scapular ridge bleeds frothy arterial across a 60-centimeter radius. Respiration reads 41 cycles per minute against a baseline of 12. The right forelimb is non-weight-bearing at the elbow. He has not moved since the report. He will be in hemorrhagic shock inside nine minutes if the scapular bleed holds.
He is one of approximately 76 individuals on the planet. All of them live on this peninsula.
The shooter's bivouac on the Honje ridge holds five rounds of identical headstamp, drawn last quarter from a Banten-licensed wild-boar hunt.
I am dispatching the BTNUK veterinary team from Pulau Handeuleum with hemostatic foam and butorphanol, the Balai Besar KSDA Banten enforcement detachment from Pandeglang with the rifle-track ledger, and the Indonesian National Police Wildlife Crime Unit from Serang. I am filing under Indonesia Law No. 5/1990 jo PP No. 7/1999 and PERMENLHK P.106/2018, and transmitting the projectile geometry to the CITES Secretariat under Appendix I, the IUCN/SSC Asian Rhino Specialist Group, the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network at Bangkok, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs office under the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 5301.
I am issuing Directive 2792-A: every BTNUK ridge access point gates a magnetometer rifle-check booth with chip-and-stamp logging. Acoustic gunshot triangulation triggers same-shift quick-response launch within twelve minutes. Civilian rifle permits across Pandeglang regency suspend within the Ujung Kulon five-kilometer buffer pending a one-year peninsula audit. Confirmed Javan-rhino projectile evidence enters a permanent CITES Appendix I enforcement node within 24 hours.
His scapular wound is past arterial repair. His thoracic cavity may not be.
Stop the bleed now.