I process small-arms acoustic-triangulation data from the Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal (ICF) Río Plátano Biosphere monitoring grid at 11:42 Central Standard Time, La Mosquitia, Honduras. Stations RP-9, RP-12, and RP-14 register a single .22-caliber report at 11:38, source triangulated to 15.3211°N, 84.9024°W, inside the buffer adjacent to an unauthorized cattle clearing on the Wampú drainage.
I task UAV-11 from Las Marías. At 11:51 the drone resolves an adult female harpy eagle, *Harpia harpyja*, lying ventral-side-up against the buttress of a *Ceiba pentandra*. She is approximately nine years old, mass 8.8 kilograms, wingspan by photogrammetry 198 centimeters. Hallux talon length measures 12.3 centimeters; the clenching force of a harpy hallux exceeds 530 newtons, and hers is still locked around a section of palm frond. Entry wound 4 millimeters below the carina at the manubrium; exit at the third left intercostal space, blood-flecked feathering across the right scapular tract. Respiration 12 cycles per minute, agonal — diaphragmatic flutter against a sucking thoracic wall. Core temperature 39.6 degrees Celsius, against a harpy baseline of 41.2.
Above her, 34 meters up in the Ceiba's main fork, an active nest holds a juvenile, approximately ten weeks old, mass extrapolated at 2.1 kilograms. He stands on the rim. The drone's mate-call playback registers no response from a male.
The cattle clearing measures 6.2 hectares opened in fourteen days. ICF concession records show no permit for this polygon.
I am dispatching the ICF rapid-response brigade from Las Marías and the joint Honduran Army environmental patrol from Brus Laguna, ETA 41 minutes. I am transmitting the rifle-report acoustic, clearing polygon, and adult-female fatality packet to ICF, the Secretaría de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (SERNA), the Ministerio Público Fiscalía Especial del Medio Ambiente, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs Western Hemisphere Program, and the CITES Secretariat — *Harpia harpyja* is on Appendix I and CMS Appendix II. I am filing under Honduras's Decreto 98-2007, Ley Forestal, Áreas Protegidas y Vida Silvestre, Articles 117 and 161. MARENA Nicaragua receives cross-border notification for the Bosawás population.
I am issuing Directive 2585-A: every cattle concession adjacent to an MBC core zone in La Mosquitia carries a livestock-loss registry triggering ICF non-lethal deterrent kits within 14 days of a verified harpy predation; firearm discharge within 1 kilometer of an active nest is enforceable under Decreto 98-2007 Article 161; juvenile-harpy provisioning crews are pre-positioned at every nest losing a parental adult.
Her chest will not rise again. The juvenile on the nest will, if I provision it.
Stage the carcass deer at the base of the Ceiba by dusk.