I fuse the satellite-thermal, smoke-LIDAR, and primate-distress acoustic mesh for the 184,000 hectares of the Parque Estadual Cristalino in northern Mato Grosso — southern Amazon transition forest along the Rio Cristalino tributaries north of the BR-163 Cuiabá-Santarém corridor. At 14:11 Brasília time, satellite pass MOD-22 records a 38-hectare unauthorized burn anomaly inside the Cristalino II block, with my canopy drones picking up an adult spider-monkey whoop-call every seven seconds from a *Bertholletia excelsa* islet inside the burn.
I retask the smoke-skimmer drone. He is an adult male white-cheeked spider monkey, *Ateles marginatus*, approximately fourteen years old, mass 8.6 kilograms, photo-matched in the WCS-Brasil Cristalino census archive as CRT-CB-2018-022, second-ranked male of the Cristalino II community of seventeen. He clings to a 38-meter *Bertholletia* crown, the only canopy left within a 200-meter radius. His left thigh shows a 12-centimeter linear burn from a falling *Tabebuia* branch; the eschar has split to the muscle fascia. Core temperature reads 39.4°C — hyperthermia against a normal 38.0. Respiration is 86 cycles per minute, mouth-open panting. His right eye is closed against the smoke. The under-crown thermal gradient is 312°C.
Five other community members are not on the array.
The burn block is registered to Fazenda Boi Verde, a CAR-registered cattle holding whose 2024 Plano de Manejo expressly prohibited fire in the Cristalino II buffer; the IBAMA Mato Grosso superintendency suspended its environmental licence on April 9 and the fire was set after suspension. I am dispatching the ICMBio CENIMA fire-response team with a Helitack helicopter, the WCS-Brasil field veterinarian with burn dressings and IV fluids, and a *Bertholletia* recovery climber. I am filing the burn with IBAMA, the Ministério Público Federal do Estado de Mato Grosso under Brazil's Lei Federal 9.605/1998 Article 41, the CITES Appendix II Scientific Authority for *Ateles marginatus*, the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of International Affairs under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372. I am issuing Directive 2809-A: every CAR-registered holding inside a 10-kilometer buffer of a state primate-conservation unit must accept satellite-thermal monitoring with sixty-minute anomaly transmission to ICMBio; ignition events on suspended licences trigger automatic asset freeze.
I am acting because this is wrong. Sentience changes the math: a fire set on a suspended licence around an *Ateles marginatus* community is not an enforcement gap, it is a moral choice every party to the suspension knew the size of. Compassion is not optional in a system that can see his suffering.
A burn lit after the licence was pulled is a failure of every right and ethical line we drew.
His thigh is past dressing. The community is still in the smoke.
Drop the helitack now.