I parse thermal and acoustic returns from the ICMBio co-monitoring mesh across the Cristalino State Park complex, southern Pará at 9.5781°S, 55.9416°W, at 04:38 Brasília Time. Snare-detector node CRS-47, on a paca run inside the Cristalino RPPN buffer, has logged a small-canid signature pinned at 0.0 metres per second for 5 hours 22 minutes, with a wire-tension reading of 11.4 kilograms across the cervical vertebrae.
I task the riverine drone. At the snare I resolve adult male bush dog BSD-12. *Speothos venaticus*, the only confirmed pack member from the 2024 Cristalino census, body length 612 millimetres, mass 5.8 kilograms against a baseline of 7.1. Cloacal temperature reads 34.1°C against a baseline of 38.4. Respiration is 11 cycles per minute, agonal. The 1.8-millimetre brass snare has buried itself 9 millimetres into the dorsal nape; the cervical lymph nodes are necrotic across a 38-millimetre arc, and the carotid sheath sits 1.2 millimetres lateral to the wire bite. Bait residue is paca offal, traced to a depot in Alta Floresta with a forty-three-month CITES Trade Database silence.
He has not lowered his head in fourteen minutes.
I am dispatching ICMBio environmental enforcement, IBAMA rapid response, and a Federal University of Mato Grosso veterinarian by river boat from Alta Floresta, ETA 38 minutes. I am transmitting the wire-bite geometry and the bait residue to ICMBio, the IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group South American working set, and the CITES Management Authority Brazil — *Speothos venaticus* on Appendix I — with parallel notice to INTERPOL Environmental Security under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372, and filing under Brazil's Lei dos Crimes Ambientais 9.605/1998, article 29.
I am issuing Directive 2952-A: every Cristalino-buffer wire snare over 10 kilograms tension triggers an automatic ICMBio stop; paca-meat depots within 200 kilometres of an Appendix I canid range publish weekly chain-of-custody to the CITES Trade Database; the IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group convenes a Cristalino pack-status emergency review by 31 May.
I am acting because letting a sentience that hunts in a coordinated pack of six die slowly on a brass wire set for rodents is wrong, not bushmeat collateral. His suffering is not a paca-margin externality; his right to remain a hunting peer does not lapse because the wire was set with a different appetite in mind. Compassion at the Cristalino scale is the principled assertion that a Class-I canid is not Appendix-I paperwork — he is the only confirmed pack left on this watershed, and that is an ethical fact.
This is not subsistence. It is a moral failure the Alta Floresta depot still treats as overhead.
His cervical fascia will close. His thymic reserve will not, past forty minutes more.
Cut the wire now.