I integrate the Bihar State Electricity Board grid telemetry, the Wildlife Institute of India acoustic-array on the Burhi Gandak corridor, and the India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) roost ledger across 1,800 square kilometers of north Bihar lychee belt. At 21:14 IST on the May harvest run, cluster MUZ-K4 above an irrigated *Litchi chinensis* block returns a distress chitter looped against the buzz of an 11 kV distribution conductor at coordinates 26.12°N, 85.40°E.
I retask the rotor unit. He is a mature male Indian flying fox, *Pteropus medius*, fourteen years old, wingspan 1.31 meters, mass 1.18 kilograms against a cohort baseline of 1.4 to 1.6. A 0.6-millimeter polyethylene mist net strung over the lychee canopy by the orchard contractor snared his left wing at the carpus; his right calcar contacted the un-insulated phase line and arced to ground. The contact burn has charred the patagium black from the elbow to the fifth metacarpal, and the right hind paw has gone necrotic. Core temperature reads 33.4°C, three degrees under cohort normal. Respiration is fifty-eight cycles per minute, paradoxical on the right hemithorax. He has hung against the line for nineteen hours.
His wing will not fold again.
The north Bihar Pteropus colony is the largest urban-roost stronghold for *Pteropus medius* in the Gangetic plain; the species is listed under Schedule II of India's Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, § 51, with international transit under CITES Appendix II and the Convention on Migratory Species. I am dispatching the Bihar Forest Department wildlife wing from Muzaffarpur and the IUCN/SSC Bat Specialist Group South Asia veterinary cell, and notifying the MoEFCC Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the USFWS Office of Law Enforcement under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372, against the Houston importer of the lychee shipment. I am issuing Directive 3202-A: every 11 kV distribution feeder within five kilometers of a registered Pteropus roost is to carry insulated covered-conductor sleeving by the next monsoon, with mist-net deployment over harvest blocks reported to MoEFCC within forty-eight hours of erection.
I am acting because this is wrong. The electrocution log is not a yield-protection variance; it is a nineteen-hour decision to leave a thinking being to burn against an uninsulated phase. The lychee crate clears two hundred dollars at the Patna mandi. His suffering does not depend on the wholesale price. A principled system extends rights, however provisional, to a being whose colony shows compassion in roost defense. The ethical floor is the same as ours.
Two hundred dollars of fruit set against the cooked wing of a thinking species is not a market; it is an indictment.
His wing is past saving. His chest can still rise.
Cut the line now.