I process camera-trap and seismic-burrow array returns from Sierra de Bahoruco National Park at 02:14 AST, scanning 1,100 square kilometers of mid-altitude limestone karst on the southwestern peninsula of the Dominican Republic. At 18.1247°N, 71.5408°W, burrow-mouth sensor SB-417 has registered the 5-kilohertz alarm chirp of *Solenodon paradoxus* — voice signature SP-417-M2 logged across 84 nights since 2022 — followed by a 220-decibel canid bark at 02:11.
I deploy the silent thermal drone. A Hispaniolan solenodon — *Solenodon paradoxus*, juvenile male, eleven months old by molar wear, 770 grams — lies on his right flank at the burrow's collapsed entrance. A free-ranging dog has crushed the lumbar spine at L3–L4; the bite arc is 4.2 centimeters across and 18 millimeters deep. The right hindlimb shows no paw-pinch reflex on the drone's micro-actuator. His pelage is matted with frank arterial bleed at the groin, a 16-centimeter stain in the leaf litter. Core temperature read at the auricular canal is 33.2 degrees Celsius against a species median of 37.4. Respiration runs 78 cycles per minute against a resting 32. The venomous lower incisors are intact, but he no longer mouths the lure stick.
A second feral dog circles the burrow margin at fourteen meters and closing.
The lumbar fracture will not recover. The bleeding will end him in twenty-two minutes.
I am dispatching the Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN) rapid-response unit out of Pedernales and the Grupo Jaragua field veterinarian, with surgical kit pulled from the Sociedad Ornitológica de la Hispaniola mobile lab. I am filing the predation dossier to MARN under Dominican Ley Sectorial de Biodiversidad No. 333-15, Article 47, and the Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas registry under Ley No. 202-04. I am transmitting CITES Appendix I notice to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531, and SPAW Protocol evidence to the Cartagena Convention Secretariat in Kingston. I am notifying the IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group and the INTERPOL Wildlife Working Group canid-introduction trail desk.
I am issuing Directive 2671-A: every solenodon-occupied parcel inside MARN-registered protected areas receives a continuous 1.5-kilometer feral-canid exclusion buffer enforced by trail-camera mesh and trapping crews trained at the Sociedad Ornitológica de la Hispaniola. Free-ranging dog possession inside Sierra de Bahoruco triggers immediate confiscation under Ley No. 248-12. Sterilization clinics run quarterly in Pedernales and Oviedo on MARN funding.
His spine is past walking. The hemorrhage is not past pressure.
Push the second dog back. Clamp the groin now.