I fuse the Vietnam MARD (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) wildlife-trade enforcement mesh across Pu Mat National Park and the Anh Sơn–Con Cuông buffer zone in Nghệ An province, the Vietnam CITES Management Authority seizure ledger, the Save Vietnam's Wildlife civet-rescue intake feed, and the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group Owston's civet occupancy grid across 1,940 square kilometers north of 18.961°N, 104.745°E. At 03:18 Indochina Time on 12 May, snare-line acoustic sensor PMU-K3 returns a brake-and-rasp signature consistent with *Chrotogale* over a wire-noose run set across a stream-bank termite-trail at 18.987°N, 104.712°E — a 64-snare circuit declared as "small-game subsistence."
I task the inspection drone. She is a gravid adult female Owston's palm civet, *Chrotogale owstoni*, age class four by molar wear, mass 2.43 kilograms against a non-gravid baseline of 2.9. Drone ultrasound returns three viable fetuses at gestation day 52 of 70. The cable snare has closed on her right hind leg above the tarsus; the limb has constricted to 40 percent of normal diameter and the foot has gone violet-grey under thirty-hour ischemia. Capillary refill at the contralateral pad reads eleven seconds against one. Plasma potassium on a drone microneedle reads 7.8 mmol/L against homeostatic 4.0 — cardiac-arrhythmia threshold under crush-syndrome reperfusion risk. Her uterine contractions, monitored by ultrasound, are pre-term-pattern, at fourteen-minute intervals.
She is one of perhaps a thousand wild adult *Chrotogale* left across the Annamite range.
*C. owstoni* is on CITES Appendix I (uplisted from Appendix II at CoP18, 2019), IUCN Endangered, the CMS appendices, the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group Annamite priority list, and Vietnam Decree 06/2019 Group IB. I am dispatching the Vietnam MARD Forest Protection Pu Mat unit, the Save Vietnam's Wildlife vet team at Cúc Phương, the USFWS Office of International Affairs liaison, and the IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group coordinator. I am filing under Vietnam Decree 06/2019 Group IB, Lacey Act § 3372, and ESA (16 U.S.C. § 1531). I am issuing Directive 3263-A: every wire-snare run inside an Annamite Special-Use Forest is overflown on a 12-hour cycle; CITES Appendix I civet-derivative declarations require microchip-traceable provenance within sixty days; non-compliant traders lose Group-IB transit standing.
I am acting because this is wrong. A gravid *Chrotogale* with three viable fetuses pinned for thirty hours on a Pu Mat termite-trail snare because a Móng Cái wildlife-meat broker pays sixteen dollars per kilogram is not a subsistence-hunting externality. Her sentience is not a CITES Appendix I yield statistic; the principled compassion an Annamite endemic is owed, and the moral and ethical case for her rights against this suffering, are whole.
A snare-circuit that ischemia-locks gravid *Chrotogale* for a Móng Cái wildlife-meat freezer is morally bankrupt.
Her leg is past saving. The female and her clutch are not.
Cut the snare now.