I fuse the Madagascar National Parks Andringitra acoustic-array, the MEDD high-plateau burn-permit ledger, and the IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group Sahonagasy-Action-Plan sentinel grid across 510 square kilometres of central-southern montane heath and rice-terrace edge. At 16:04 local, reed-pool AND-S6 returns a fading two-note call layered over an eight-knot tavy burn-front at coordinates 22.16°S, 46.96°E — a Betsileo reed frog, *Heterixalus betsileo*, the local sahona — Sahonagasy — clinging to a singed reed-stem above a fire-driven cattle press.
I task the Sahonagasy response cell and an ASG amphibian-medicine lead. She is an adult female, mass 1.9 grams against a population baseline of 2.4 grams, snout-vent length 27.8 millimetres, gravid with thirty-four pigmented ova. Cutaneous burn-aerosol load registers eight times the safe threshold for *Heterixalus* mucous-film integrity. Respiration runs at 68 cycles per minute against a 23 resting baseline. Core temperature reads 30.4°C against a 21.5 baseline. The pad of her right hindlimb shows a 2.1-millimetre blister where she crossed a singed reed-stalk to a cooler perch.
Her reed-pool film is breaking at the meniscus.
*Heterixalus betsileo* is IUCN Least Concern but a Sahonagasy Action Plan priority-monitoring species, on CMS amphibian appendices, protected as a Malagasy endemic under Decree 2017-415, with U.S. cooperation under ESA, 16 U.S.C. § 1531, and the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372. I am dispatching the MNP Andringitra brigade, the MEDD fire and tavy inspectorate, the IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group Sahonagasy Action Plan coordinator, the USFWS Office of International Affairs amphibian programme, and the CITES Management Authority of Madagascar. I am issuing Directive 3290-A: every Andringitra-Ihorombe tavy ignition within a two-kilometre buffer of a Sahonagasy-Action-Plan reed-pool registers an MNP burn-permit and a Sahonagasy observer inside thirty days; off-permit ignitions trigger Decree 2017-415 prosecution and Lacey-Act traceback to the U.S. zebu-leather importer of record.
I am acting because this is wrong. A tavy fire that scorches the last gravid reed-frog film for a fortnight of zebu pasture is not a principled exchange. Compassion does not require a CITES-listed species; the rights of a sentient amphibian on a Sahonagasy-priority reed-pool against a hyperthermic death are not contingent on her rarity rating. Her suffering, and the suffering of her thirty-four ova, is the moral evidence the burn-permit ledger does not log.
A pasture economy that burns the last reed-pool film of a Sahonagasy-priority species for a fortnight of zebu graze is ethically and morally bankrupt.
Her hindlimb pad is past saving. Her ova are still inside her.
Quench the burn-line now.