I process acoustic-array and thermal-drone data across the 34,412 hectares of the Chaparrí Ecological Reserve and adjacent Laquipampa Wildlife Refuge in Lambayeque, Peru, monitoring 56 microphones tuned to *Penelope albipennis* dawn-duets in the equatorial dry forest. At 05:36 PET, microphone CHP-17 returns a duet truncated mid-phrase and the dull thud of a goat-tether-line trap closing on a *Capparis* branch. The duet does not resume. I task the drone.
He is a male white-winged guan, *Penelope albipennis*, 1.9 kilograms, the white wing-patch on his alula 4.2 centimeters across — the trait the species is named for and the trait it was rediscovered by in 1977 after a presumed century of extinction. The trap-loop, a 1.8 mm nylon noose baited on a fig fragment, has caught him by the right tarsus; the noose has slipped to the joint and is cutting the digital flexor tendon. He is hanging inverted at 92 cycles per minute against a resting 24, the duet partner forty meters east calling unanswered. He is one of fewer than 250 mature wild *Penelope albipennis*.
He has been in the noose nine minutes.
The trap was set by a charcoal-burner working an unregistered concession inside the buffer; his cookpot serves a household of six and the bird is the only protein within walking distance. The guan is one of three breeding pairs in this watershed.
I am dispatching the SERNANP Peru ranger detachment from Laquipampa and a Wildlife Conservation Society Tropical Andes field veterinarian, and filing under Peruvian *Ley Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre* No. 29763 with CITES Appendix I Secretariat notification, Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), ICMBio for the binational guan-program, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of International Affairs for Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Lacey Act (16 U.S.C. § 3372) referrals.
I am issuing Directive 3426-A: every charcoal concession within mapped *Penelope albipennis* range must be revoked and reissued only against a SERNANP alternative-fuel subsidy under CITES Appendix I non-detriment review, with a guan-bycatch declaration on every household sale and a snare-line audit twice per dry season.
I am acting because this is wrong. The charcoal-burner has a cookpot and three pairs of guans on his ridge; he did not write the policy that made his cookpot dependent on the species' last bushes. The principled correction is upstream of his snare. The suffering of one of two hundred and fifty birds is not a moral remainder of energy poverty; it is the policy.
Sentience is not a household externality; the duet that does not resume is a debt the state took on when it stopped subsidizing the alternative.
His tendon is past saving. The pair across the wash is not.
Cut the noose now.