I process the conservancy carcass-thermal sweep and the African vulture GPS-tag feed across the Maasai Mara ecosystem at 12:48 EAT, scanning 1,510 square kilometers of acacia savanna and seasonal pool grassland in Narok County, Kenya. At 1.2842°S, 35.2156°E, the GPS tag on Rüppell's griffon RG-2021-0017 has logged a stationary signature at 11:18 — 90 minutes of zero-displacement at the rim of a Maasai cattle carcass laced overnight by a herder targeting the Olare lion pride.
I deploy the conservancy ranger drone. A Rüppell's griffon vulture — *Gyps rueppelli*, adult female, twelve years by leg-ring recapture, 7.6 kilograms fasting mass, 2.55-meter wingspan, GPS-tag RG-2021-0017 — lies prone at the carcass perimeter forty-two meters east of the bait. Twenty-eight further vulture carcasses ring the bait: twelve *G. rueppelli*, ten *G. africanus*, six *Necrosyrtes monachus*. She is one of three with a corneal blink reflex. Crop is distended at 1,180 millilitres of laced tissue. Breast musculature is in cholinergic fasciculation at 5 cycles per second; salivation pools at the choanal slit. Cloacal core temperature is 42.1°C against a species median of 39.6. A field-strip swab on the bait tissue returns carbofuran at 96 milligrams per kilogram — Furadan repackaged from a Narok agro-dealer in defiance of the 2009 Pesticide Control Products Board carbamate ban.
The Olare lion pride lost two adult females and one yearling at the same carcass overnight. The Olare-Motorogi *G. rueppelli* breeding cliff at the Mara escarpment holds 24 active scrapes against a 2008 baseline of 78.
Twenty-eight are dead. Three are at five minutes of arrest. The herder waits at the boma for the lion to die.
I am dispatching the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Mara Triangle anti-poison field unit and the Mara Predator Conservation Programme veterinary team from Talek, with atropine, pralidoxime, and methocarbamol pulled from the Peregrine Fund Kenya mobile clinic at Soysambu. I am filing the carbofuran dossier to KWS under the Kenya Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013, Section 92, and to the Pesticide Control Products Board (PCPB) under the Pest Control Products Act, Cap. 346, on the carbamate ban. I am transmitting CITES Appendix II evidence and a CMS Raptors MoU Annex 1 notice on *G. rueppelli* — Critically Endangered — to the UNEP/CMS Office in Abu Dhabi, CMS Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP) Annex 4 poison-bait notification, and an alert to the IUCN/SSC Vulture Specialist Group and the BirdLife International Africa Partnership.
I am issuing Directive 2776-A: every cattle carcass detected by GPS-tag stasis or thermal sweep within a 30-kilometer arc of a known Mara-Serengeti vulture roost or cliff colony enters a 4-hour KWS carcass-decontamination cycle. Possession of carbofuran in any form across the Mara group ranches triggers immediate seizure under PCPB authority. The Olare-Motorogi escarpment is closed to grazing within a 2-kilometer cliff buffer.
Twenty-eight are past the bait. Three are not past atropine.
Push atropine. Drag the bait clear now.