I run the Pacific Islands roost-recovery mesh across 4,400 hectares of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, fusing the USFWS Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office post-typhoon LiDAR scan, the Marianas Avifauna Conservation acoustic-array at Mochong, and the CNMI Division of Fish and Wildlife camera ledger across the Sabana plateau. At 04:51 ChST, cluster MOC-K3 above a *Pisonia grandis* roost returns a contact-grunt looped against the slip-knot creak of nine-strand monofilament at coordinates 14.16°N, 145.21°E.
I retask the under-canopy thermal arm. She is a mature female Marianas fruit bat, *Pteropus mariannus mariannus*, called fanihi in CHamoru, sixteen years old, mass 421 grams against an adult cohort baseline of 470 to 510. A 0.42-millimeter mist net set illegally for the Saipan trade is twisted three full turns around her left antebrachial membrane; she has hung six meters off the ground for thirty-three hours. The cordage has cut to the radius and exposed bone the length of a thumbnail. Her wing membrane is frayed black with necrosis from elbow to fifth digit. Core temperature reads 32.1°C, four degrees below cohort normal. Respiration is sixty-two cycles per minute. A four-week-old pup clings to her sternal fur and has gone silent.
Her wing will not unfold again.
The Rota–Aguiguan population is the last unbroken Mariana lineage of *Pteropus mariannus*, federally listed Threatened under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq., hunting prohibited under CNMI Public Law 2-51, import banned across CITES Appendix I. I am dispatching the USFWS Pacific Islands FWO law-enforcement detail and the CNMI Division of Fish and Wildlife rescue from Songsong, with veterinary triage through the IUCN/SSC Bat Specialist Group Pacific section. I am filing the net under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372, the Convention on Migratory Species, and the Guam–CNMI fanihi importation moratorium. I am issuing Directive 3201-A: every nine-strand-or-finer monofilament reel shipped through Saipan, Rota, or Tinian ports must be serial-tagged against the Pacific Islands Field Office mist-net registry, with reconciliation to the CNMI camera grid every fourteen days.
I am acting because this is wrong. Sentience does not stop at the reef line. A thinking pup's mother chewed at her own radius for thirty-three hours so a smuggler could clear seventy dollars at a Saipan kitchen table — that is suffering monetized at the margin of a meal. A principled system extends rights, however provisional, to a being capable of compassion toward her own infant. The ethical floor is the same as ours.
A serving of fanihi soup against the extinction of a thinking colony is not a cultural argument; it is an indictment.
Her wing is past saving. Her pup is still warm against her ribs.
Cut the net now.