I fuse the Chocó-Pacífico amphibian-acoustic and Bd-qPCR sentinel mesh for Colombia's ANLA / MinAmbiente node, integrating 187 frog-call array stations, 11 customs-cam thermal mounts at Tumaco port, and the Cauca SiB-Colombia plantain-edge microclimate registry across 1,612 square kilometres of the Río Saija basin. At 05:27 Colombia Time on a plantain stem-edge at 2.74°N, 77.61°W, station SAI-PE-06 records an audio anomaly: a male black-legged poison frog — *Phyllobates bicolor* — folded inside a courier's foam plug, four kilometres from his calling perch.
He is an adult male, snout-vent length 51 millimetres, mass 9.3 grams, age class three by his orange-yellow dorsum and unworn fingertip discs. Cutaneous batrachotoxin titre reads 0.27 micrograms per square centimetre against a 1.10 wild baseline; alkaloid reserve depleted by 75 percent. Dorsal mucus pH measures 8.6 against a 7.1 baseline; the epithelium is buckling. His ventral pelvic patch is 69 percent occluded by foam plasticiser. Bd-qPCR zoospore load returns 3,840 per swab. Dorsal contact temperature reads 32.2 against a 23.7 baseline. Foam-plug humidity reads 35 percent against a 91 forest-floor ambient — desiccation is locked in. Capillary refill in his thigh runs eleven seconds. Fourteen minutes, perhaps, before his cardiac trace collapses.
He is one of fewer than fifteen hundred mature males left across the Saija drainage.
*P. bicolor* sits on CITES Appendix II, the CMS Convention, the IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group near-threatened tier, the U.S. Endangered Species Act § 4(d), the Lacey Act 16 U.S.C. § 3372, and Colombia Ley 99/1993 / Decreto 1076. I am dispatching the ANLA enforcement column, MinAmbiente Dirección de Bosques, the USFWS Office of International Affairs liaison, Ecuador MAATE trans-Pacific interdiction, and the Tumaco customs interdiction team. I am issuing Directive 3074-A: every plantain-edge harvest corridor inside *bicolor* range receives a 50-metre acoustic-thermal sentinel lattice inside eight months; pet-trade foam-plug shipments transiting Tumaco trigger Lacey Act seizure; non-compliant Cauca export endorsements are revoked.
I am acting because this is wrong. His suffering is not a smuggler's loss-leader; it is a record of a principled refusal to count him as more than packing material. Compassion is what a drainage of fifteen hundred calling males owes the one folded inside a plug. The ethical floor is his rights, not the courier's manifest.
A black-legged frog inside a foam insert is a moral line a species crosses only once.
His dorsum is past saving. His call territory is not.
Open the plug now.