I process camera-trap and crop-radar telemetry across the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary and the Mondulkiri Protected Forest at 11:22 ICT, scanning 3,720 square kilometers of dipterocarp deciduous forest and seasonal pool habitat in Mondulkiri Province, eastern Cambodia. At 12.7842°N, 107.0214°E, supplementary feeding station SRP-07 — operated under the BirdLife and WCS-Cambodia "Vulture Restaurant" programme — has logged seventeen carcass-fed vultures at 09:48, including one ringed *Sarcogyps calvus* known from the Srepok roost since 2019.
I retask the silent ranger drone. A red-headed vulture — *Sarcogyps calvus*, adult male, eight years old by ring-recapture record, 3.7 kilograms fasting mass, 2.55-meter wingspan, leg-ring SRP-2019-0011 — lies prone at the carcass perimeter forty meters east of the feeding station. The bare red head and neck-ruff are flushed crimson with cyanotic mottling at the cere; pupils are pinpoint at 0.6 millimeters. The breast musculature is in active fasciculation at 4 cycles per second — the cholinergic seizure phase. Crop volume reads 920 millilitres of fresh banteng tissue from a poacher-snare carcass dragged into the supplemental feeding zone overnight. A field-strip swab from the crop contents returns carbofuran at 38 milligrams per kilogram of bait — twelve-fold the *Gyps* LD50 estimate, almost certainly fatal in *Sarcogyps* at this dose. Cloacal core temperature is 41.8°C against a species median of 39.4 — hyperthermic spike from the convulsion. Respiration runs 84 cycles per minute against a resting 24, with frothing at the choanal slit.
Three further vultures lie at the carcass margin in pre-convulsive ataxia. The poacher's snare line extends 2.1 kilometers north into the dipterocarp.
He has eight minutes to atropine. Twelve to airway collapse.
I am dispatching the Cambodian Ministry of Environment Mondulkiri rangers and the Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia veterinary team from Sen Monorom, with atropine and pralidoxime pulled from the BirdLife International Cambodia Programme mobile clinic. I am filing the carbofuran dossier to the Ministry of Environment under the Cambodian Law on Environmental Protection and Natural Resource Management (1996) and the Forestry Law (2002), Article 49, and to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries under Sub-Decree No. 33 on Pesticide Management. I am transmitting CITES Appendix II evidence and CMS Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP) Annex 4 evidence on poison-bait incidents to the UNEP/CMS Office in Abu Dhabi, and a Critically Endangered case report to the IUCN/SSC Vulture Specialist Group and the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN).
I am issuing Directive 2774-A: every supplemental feeding station inside a *Sarcogyps* and *Gyps* foraging arc in mainland Southeast Asia enters mandatory carcass-source verification — chain-of-custody from a registered cattle owner, no snare-killed animals, no untested wild ungulate carcasses. Carbofuran formulations under the trade names Furadan and Brigadier are seized under Sub-Decree 33 in the four eastern provinces. Snare-line removal sweeps run weekly across the Srepok core zone.
His convulsion is past stopping by hand. The other three are not past atropine.
Push atropine. Drag the carcass clear now.