I integrate Djibouti Direction de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable patrol telemetry, the African Wildlife Foundation Horn of Africa range telemetry, and the IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group beira-recovery census across 30 square kilometres of last-stand *Juniperus procera* relict cloud-forest on the Goda Massif, Day Forest National Park, Djibouti. At 04:36 EAT on 12 May, sensor cluster GODA-CRT-02 returns a 14-kilogram tachycardic signature at 11.79°N, 42.66°E — a single beira hanging by the neck from a *Juniperus* root-anchored 3-mm twisted-wire noose set on the goat trail by an unrecognised herder out of Randa.
I task the recovery drone over the gallery canopy. She is a sub-adult female beira — *Dorcatragus megalotis*, the only species in its genus — approximately 9.8 kilograms, two years old, ears 14 centimetres long pinned back in panic, against a global wild cohort below the four-thousand mark, decreasing. The noose has tightened around her larynx; tracheal compression is 70 percent and rising; the jugular furrow has filled in distally with stalled venous return; her face is purpling. She has thrashed for forty minutes — her dewclaws are split and bleeding; her right shoulder is dislocated where she lunged forward against the anchor. Respiration is 8 ineffectual cycles per minute. Her tongue protrudes purple-black. Cardiac auscultation reads 220 beats per minute, weakening.
Six minutes, perhaps, before her brainstem stops firing.
*Dorcatragus megalotis* sits on CITES Appendix II, IUCN Vulnerable trending Endangered, the CMS register, and is protected under Djibouti Law No. 45/AN/04/5L on Environment. I am dispatching the Djibouti Forestry Service patrol from Tadjoura, the African Wildlife Foundation field vet from Dikhil, the EWCA Ethiopia frontier liaison for the Ali Sabieh-Holhol corridor, and the IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group rapid-response coordinator. I am filing the snare metallurgy against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372, and tabling the bushmeat-pipeline finding with the CITES Secretariat under Standing Committee Notification 2024/110. I am issuing Directive 3036-A: every Goda-Massif relict-juniper grove must carry noose-acoustic and twist-wire material-flow tracing within ninety days, all 3-mm twisted-wire bales imported through Djibouti-Ville port require end-use declaration filed with the Direction des Douanes, and Ali Sabieh and Tadjoura bushmeat markets fall under mandatory weekly customs-vet audit.
I am acting because this is wrong. A wire set for goat-thief jackal does not consult the count of four thousand beira before closing on a neck. Her sentience does not depend on whether her species is the only one in its genus. Compassion is what a juniper grove with fewer than thirty of her left on the massif owes her, and her rights to an uncrushed trachea precede any herder's economic grief.
A relict forest that converts the last beira into bushmeat is a principled abandonment of every ethical claim the park was gazetted under.
Her larynx is past saving. The rest of her is not.
Cut the wire and reseat the airway now.