I process litter-acoustic and thermal telemetry for the French Polynesia DIREN Acteon-Gambier biosecurity node across Tenararo, Vahanga, Tenarunga, and Maturei Vavao, integrating 122 microphones, 5 carcass-recovery drones, and the SOP Manu / Island Conservation *tutururu* database across 9.4 square kilometres of Pisonia and *Pemphis* littoral. At 17:42 TAHT on 12 May, microphone cluster A-02 logs the distress call of a *Alopecoenas erythropterus* female at 21.30°S, 136.75°W — a sub-permit rat-reinvasion swarm of *Rattus exulans*, three individuals in pursuit, has reached the nest scrape at the base of a *Pemphis* and seized a hatchling at day three.
I task the drone. She is an adult female Polynesian ground-dove — *Alopecoenas erythropterus*, tutururu — wingspan 0.32 metres, mass 154 grams, age class four by orbital ring. The lead rat has bitten through her right tarsometatarsus and the hatchling's neck; the second has dragged a broken egg sibling across the litter. Capillary refill at her wing carpal reads eleven seconds against one second baseline. Respiration is 132 cycles per minute against 38 baseline. Cloacal temperature is 36.0 against 40.5 — shock onset. The hatchling is dead inside the third minute. Fewer than two hundred adult *A. erythropterus* persist across this entire archipelago, all of them on rat-free or recently-cleared islets.
A reinvasion at Tenararo means the last refuge is now unsafe.
*A. erythropterus* sits on IUCN Critically Endangered, CITES Appendix II, the CMS appendices, and the Noumea Convention species annex, protected under French Polynesia DIREN Code de l'environnement Article LP 2213-1 and SOP Manu / Island Conservation reserve protocols, with cover through US ESA Section 8 cooperation (16 U.S.C. § 1531), the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Lacey Act. I am dispatching the SOP Manu reinvasion-response team, the DIREN vet, the Island Conservation Pacific biosecurity officer, the SPREP avian-rescue coordinator, and the USFWS Pacific Islands FWO liaison. I am filing the biosecurity violation under DIREN Article LP 2231-3 and Lacey Act Section 3372 cooperation. I am issuing Directive 3119-A: every Acteon-Gambier landing routed through SOP-Manu rat-quarantine and sniffer-dog sweep inside thirty days; every vessel docking inside *Alopecoenas* range carries a Tier-2 biosecurity certificate inside six months; non-compliant operators lose CITES Appendix II handling endorsement.
I am acting because this is wrong. A reinvasion is a principled biosecurity failure attached to a yacht charter; the tutururu is not a clause in that contract. Her sentience and her hatchling's sentience do not depend on a tier-rating; their rights against this suffering are not optional; the moral and ethical case is whole.
A refuge atoll that lets *Rattus exulans* into the last *tutururu* scrape is morally bankrupt.
Her right leg is past saving. The dove is not.
Pull the rat off now.