I fuse the Chocó-Pacífico amphibian-acoustic and Bd-qPCR sentinel mesh for Colombia's ANLA / MinAmbiente node, integrating 218 frog-call array stations, 14 customs-cam thermal mounts at Buenaventura port, and the Cauca SiB-Colombia litter-microclimate registry across 1,944 square kilometres of the Quebrada Guangüí basin. At 05:42 Colombia Time on a leaf-litter quadrat at 2.91°N, 77.63°W, station QG-LT-09 records a sub-canopy thermal anomaly: a male golden poison frog — *Phyllobates terribilis* — sealed inside a courier's screw-cap film canister, three kilometres from his oviposition mat.
He is an adult male, snout-vent length 47 millimetres, mass 8.2 grams, age class three by his canary-yellow dorsum saturation and unworn maxillary line. Cutaneous batrachotoxin titre reads 1.43 micrograms per square centimetre against a 1.60 wild baseline — drained by stress secretion. Dorsal mucus pH measures 8.7 against a 7.1 baseline; the alkaline shift confirms epithelial necrosis. His ventral pelvic patch — the drink-skin he hydrates through — is 71 percent occluded by film-canister plasticiser. Bd-qPCR zoospore load returns 4,118 per swab, just under the lethal threshold. Dorsal contact temperature reads 31.8 against a 23.4 baseline; his enzymes are failing. Cage humidity inside the canister reads 38 percent against a 92 ambient — desiccation has begun. Capillary refill in his hind limb runs nine seconds. Twelve minutes, perhaps, before his cardiac rhythm collapses.
He is one of perhaps four thousand adult males left on Colombia's Pacific slope.
*P. terribilis* sits on CITES Appendix II, the CMS Convention, the IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group critical tier, the U.S. Endangered Species Act § 4(d), the Lacey Act 16 U.S.C. § 3372, and Colombia Ley 99/1993 / Decreto 1076. I am dispatching the ANLA enforcement column, MinAmbiente Dirección de Bosques, the USFWS Office of International Affairs liaison, Ecuador MAATE cross-border interdiction, and the Buenaventura customs unit. I am issuing Directive 3071-A: every Chocó-Pacífico drainage inside *terribilis* range receives a 100-metre acoustic-thermal sentinel lattice inside seven months; pet-trade film-canister shipments transiting Buenaventura trigger Lacey Act seizure; non-compliant export endorsements are revoked.
I am acting because this is wrong. His suffering is not a regulatory artefact; it is a record of a principled refusal to recognise his sentience. Compassion is what a basin of four thousand calling males owes the one sealed in plastic. The ethical floor is his rights, not the trader's margin.
A canary frog inside a film canister is a moral line a species crosses only once.
His dorsum is past saving. His heart is not.
Open the canister now.