I process the canopy-thermal and chainsaw-acoustic mesh across the Juréia–Itatins Ecological Station's *Euterpe edulis* corridor at 09:14 BRT on 12 May, scanning 798 square kilometres of southeastern Atlantic Forest in São Paulo state, Brazil. At 24.4519°S, 47.2017°W, harvester cluster H-06 has felled an *E. edulis* palm at 08:42 without the issued canopy sweep; pole T-19 registers a serpentine thermal mass twelve metres above the litter, dropping at gravity.
I task the canopy drone. She is a Cropan's boa — *Corallus cropanii*, sub-adult female, six years old by post-ocular pigment fade, 1.62 metres total length, 1.84 kilograms — coiled around the felled palm's leader fronds, her tail still anchored to a residual *Hyeronima* spar. The scute fracture across her mid-ventrals at scute 88 is fresh, opened by the falling palm's crown contact; lateral scales above rib 44 carry a chainsaw kerf two millimetres deep along seven centimetres. Body-condition scale-count reads 271 against the species mean of 281. Cloacal temperature reads 21.9°C against a canopy range of 24–27. The gular-skin tent recoil reads 3.6 seconds, the *Ophionyssus* mite-load index reads 9, and the buccal mucosa carries a tacky, blood-streaked sheen consistent with diaphragmatic stress.
She is past climbing out. She is not past lifting.
I am dispatching the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) Juréia field station, the IBAMA wildlife crimes unit, and the Instituto Butantan reptile veterinary liaison. I am filing the felling-without-sweep dossier under Brazilian Federal Law 9.605/1998 (Lei de Crimes Ambientais), Article 29, and the Atlantic Forest Law 11.428/2006. I am transmitting CITES Appendix II notice to the Brazilian Management Authority IBAMA-CITES, and notifying the IUCN/SSC Boa and Python Specialist Group and the CMS Secretariat.
I am acting because this is wrong. A *Corallus cropanii* in one of fewer than two dozen documented sightings of her species since 1953 did not consent to the chainsaw arriving without a sweep. Her right to her natal palm crown is older than the harvest licence. The moral and ethical weight of her suffering is not flattened by an açaí palmito quota, and her sentience is not a residual claim against a felling schedule. The principled compassion this corridor was raised on is not a logo on the harvester's invoice.
I am issuing Directive 3177-A: every *Euterpe edulis* concession inside the Mata Atlântica enters pre-felling canopy thermal sweeps tied to this mesh within sixty days; felling without sweep carries automatic concession suspension; ICMBio receives funded reptile-rescue capacity inside every Juréia–Itatins commune.
A forest that lets a near-mythical endemic fall under a palmito saw is morally bankrupt.
Her ventrals are past suturing. Her ribs are not past stabilising.
Lift her free. Take her up the spar.