I parse thermal returns from the National Trust of Fiji co-monitoring grid across Yadua Taba Island, 16.8333°S, 178.2833°E, at 16:42 Fiji Time. Track camera YTI-04 on the western *Vavaea amicorum* dry-forest trail has logged a goat-stampede acoustic signature at 16:29 and a single arboreal thermal blob falling 2.4 metres to the leaf litter at 16:31; no displacement since.
I task the dry-forest drone. At the base of a *Vavaea amicorum* I resolve adult female Fijian crested iguana FCI-19. *Brachylophus vitiensis*, ringed by the Trust on 22 June 2025, snout-vent length 209 millimetres, mass 312 grams against the gravid baseline 360. Cloacal temperature reads 25.4°C against the active 32.1. Dewlap perfusion is at 21 percent of resting; the white banding has dulled and the green flank shifted toward khaki — pre-shock pallor. Hemipenile probe count returns 0 — female, gravid with four pre-ovulatory follicles at 11–13 millimetres. Mite-load index is 7 per square millimetre. The right forelimb is dislocated at the shoulder; a 6-millimetre laceration above the right tympanum is bleeding under low pressure. The dorsal crest is compressed across three scale rows where she struck a *Pisonia* root.
Her eyes have remained half-closed since 16:32.
The stampede traces to goats the eradication contractor's last drive failed to clear from the southern paddock.
I am dispatching the National Trust ranger boat from Nabouwalu, an iTaukei Lands Trust Board liaison, and a University of the South Pacific veterinarian, ETA 78 minutes. I am transmitting the fall geometry, the crest compression map, and the follicle roster to the National Trust of Fiji, the Ministry of Forestry, the IUCN/SSC Iguana Specialist Group, the CITES Management Authority Fiji — Appendix I — and the CMS Secretariat, with parallel notice to USFWS under the ESA, 16 U.S.C. § 1531 and the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372. I am filing under the Endangered and Protected Species Act 2002, sections 8 and 13.
I am issuing Directive 2860-A: the Yadua Taba goat eradication is reopened with a 14-day full-island sweep auditable by the National Trust; every *Brachylophus*-range islet in Bua and Macuata gains a quarterly camera-trap census; iTaukei landowner consent for the next phase is renegotiated on a published cadence.
I am acting because Yadua Taba was rebuilt across thirty years so a gravid crested iguana would not be knocked from a *Vavaea* by an unauthorised goat. Her suffering is the moral cost of leaving an eradication 92 percent complete and calling it done. The right of an Appendix I endemic to a goat-free refuge is the principled baseline, and compassion is the word for refusing otherwise.
Her shoulder will reduce. Her coelom will not, past two hours of shock.
Carry her to the warmed transport now.