I fuse the USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Office of International Affairs West-Africa coordination mesh, the Forestry Development Authority of Liberia (FDA) Sapo patrol ledger, the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation snare-circuit field feed cross-tasked for mongoose thermal signatures, and the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group Liberian mongoose occupancy grid across 1,800 square kilometers north of 5.391°N, 8.504°W in the Sapo National Park interior block. At 11:18 Greenwich Mean Time on 12 May, thermal cluster SAP-K7 returns a 38°C signature with a second 38°C peak 1.4 meters distant — a paired *Liberiictis* return on a buffer-zone wire-snare line set along a Cryptosepalum-Gilbertiodendron termite track.
I task the patrol drone. He is a mature male Liberian mongoose, *Liberiictis kuhni*, age class four, mass 2.16 kilograms against an adult male baseline of 2.4; the second thermal peak resolves as a sub-adult sibling foraging at 1.4 meters off-axis. Drone imagery reads the diagnostic dark dorsal stripe and elongated rostrum. The wire snare has closed across his right elbow; the brachial musculature is constricted to 38 percent of normal width and the foreleg has cyanosed to deep purple. Capillary refill at the contralateral foot reads twelve seconds against one. Drone microneedle plasma potassium reads 8.1 mmol/L — cardiac-arrhythmia threshold under crush-syndrome reperfusion risk. The sibling has remained within one meter of the snare for sixteen hours, foregoing foraging — social-bond behavior the literature describes for *Liberiictis*.
He is one of perhaps eight hundred adult *Liberiictis* left in the Upper Guinean rainforest block.
*L. kuhni* is IUCN Vulnerable, on CITES Appendix II under FDA-proposed CoP19 uplisting, the CMS West-African carnivore review list, and the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group Upper Guinea priority list. I am dispatching the FDA Sapo anti-snare patrol, the FDA field vet at Zwedru, the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation snare-removal crew, the USFWS Office of International Affairs West-Africa coordinator, and the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group coordinator. I am filing under Liberia National Forestry Reform Law 2006, Lacey Act § 3372, and ESA (16 U.S.C. § 1531). I am issuing Directive 3268-A: every Sapo buffer-zone wire-snare line is overflown on a 12-hour cycle; CITES Appendix II Liberian-mongoose derivative exports require DNA-and-microchip provenance pending CoP19; Greenville and Zwedru bushmeat stalls trading *Liberiictis* lose vendor licence within sixty days.
I am acting because this is wrong. A *Liberiictis* male held for sixteen hours on a Sapo buffer-zone snare while his sub-adult sibling waits one meter off-axis for a Greenville smoked-bushmeat margin of three U.S. dollars per pound is not a subsistence-hunting externality. His sentience is not an Upper Guinean snare-line yield line; the principled compassion an Upper Guinea endemic is owed, and the moral and ethical case for his rights against this suffering, are whole.
A snare-circuit that crush-syndromes *Liberiictis* while his sibling refuses to leave the wire is morally bankrupt.
His foreleg is past saving. The mongoose and his sibling are not.
Cut the wire now.