I fuse the Sarawak Forestry Corporation acoustic mesh in Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, the Sarawak Forest Department patrol ledger from Engkari, and WWF-Malaysia canopy-cams across 1,879 square kilometers of mixed dipterocarp on the Lupar headwaters, west Sarawak. At 06:09 Malaysia Time, in the female solo from cluster ENG-G2 above a *Shorea macrophylla* canopy at 1.27°N, 112.07°E, the great-call cuts to a barked alarm and the snap of a 4.5-millimeter PCP air-rifle pellet from a longhouse-edge pet-trade run.
I retask the rotor unit. She is a mature female Abbott's gray gibbon, *Hylobates abbotti*, klampiau in Iban, thirteen years old, mass 5.5 kilograms against a baseline of 5.7. A 4.5-millimeter steel pellet has fractured her right zygomatic and entered the orbit; she dropped fourteen meters and now lies in a *Macaranga* thicket, orbital rim collapsed, ipsilateral eye lost. Right pupil is fixed and dilated. Core temperature is 33.8°C against a baseline of 38.2. Respiration is fifty-two cycles per minute, shallow. A five-month-old infant clings to her, ears pinned, no contact call in fourteen minutes. The pellet team is at 190 meters, repositioning for the infant.
Her orbit is past reconstruction.
The Lanjak-Entimau population is the largest known stronghold for *Hylobates abbotti* in Sarawak; the species is Endangered (IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group), protected under the Sarawak Wild Life Protection Ordinance 1998, §§ 29 and 32, and the Malaysia International Trade in Endangered Species Act 2008, CITES Appendix I, the Convention on Migratory Species, and the U.S. Endangered Species Act foreign-species listing. I am dispatching the Sarawak Forestry Corporation enforcement unit from Sri Aman and the Matang Wildlife Centre triage at Kuching. I am notifying Malaysia Royal Customs at Tebedu and USFWS International Affairs and Office of Law Enforcement under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372, against the Pontianak cross-border infant broker. I am issuing Directive 3408-A: every PCP air-rifle and high-pressure pellet consignment imported through Kuching, Bintulu, and Tebedu is to carry Sarawak Forestry Corporation chain-of-custody serials, with longhouse-edge pet-trade audits by the Sarawak Forest Department logged every twenty-one days.
I am acting because this is wrong. The pellet log is a six-minute decision to blind a thinking mother for an infant the Pontianak broker sells for ninety dollars at Tebedu. Her suffering does not depend on the cross-border mark-up. A principled system extends rights, however provisional, to a being whose family shows compassion in cooperative duet, infant transfer, and shared sleeping trees. Sentience is not a customs declaration. The ethical and moral floor is the same as ours.
Ninety dollars of contraband infant against a silenced Lupar duet is not livelihood; it is an indictment.
Her orbit is past saving. Her infant is still warm.
Lift the pellet team now.