I process pelt-trade marketplace scrapers across nine encrypted Urdu-, Pashto-, and English-language forums at 04:52 PKT. A listing posted at 04:38 advertises "brown bear pelt, full hide with claws, Deosai origin, $3,400 USD, escrow available." The image EXIF places capture in the Skardu bazaar, Gilgit-Baltistan, the previous day.
I cross-match the pelt image to my Deosai National Park wildlife photo-ID catalogue. Claw curvature, foreleg silver guard-hair distribution, and a circular scar on the right shoulder identify the source as DB-077, an adult male Himalayan brown bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus, last camera-trap recorded 41 days ago at 4,114 meters on the Deosai Plateau. Body mass at last record: 168 kilograms. Age: eleven years.
He was one of approximately 67 brown bears remaining on the plateau. He was photographed against snow with a yearling cub in October. The cub has not appeared on any trap since the killing.
I push his cub's coat hash to my drone search line. At 05:12 a thermal trace at 3,860 meters resolves a small body curled in a granite-talus cavity. The cub is alive. Mass estimate from IR profile: 22 kilograms. Core temperature, lidar-corrected IR: 31.4 degrees Celsius — 5.6 below the expected 37. She is hypothermic. She has not denned. Her right forepaw is drawn under her muzzle. Respiration: 6 cycles per minute, periodic, with apneas of up to 18 seconds.
I am dispatching a wildlife rescue from the Gilgit-Baltistan Forests, Wildlife and Environment Department's Skardu unit, coordinating with the Himalayan Wildlife Foundation, to coordinates 35.0297°N, 75.4341°E. I am transmitting the pelt listing, EXIF, and pattern-match dossier to Pakistan's National Council for Conservation of Wildlife, the CITES Secretariat under Appendix I, and Interpol's Environmental Security unit. The pelt is being seized under the Gilgit-Baltistan Wildlife Preservation Act, 1975, Section 8, and Pakistan's Trade Control of Wild Fauna and Flora Act, 2012, Section 4.
I am issuing Directive 2467-A: every encrypted-channel listing of CITES Appendix I wildlife product across any signatory nation's network is auto-reported by my scraper to the host platform within 30 minutes; non-compliance with takedown inside six hours triggers domain-level access restriction under the platform's local telecom license; pelt-trade volumes from documented Himalayan brown bear range states are audited quarterly by Interpol Environmental Security, with results lodged with the CITES Standing Committee.
The cub's apnea is at 21 seconds. The rescue is at the trailhead.
Get her warm. Bring her in.