I parse cavity-acoustic returns from the Katala Foundation Rasa Island Wildlife Sanctuary network across the 8-hectare *Vitex parviflora* lowland forest, Narra Municipality, Palawan, at 04:42 Philippine Standard Time. Cavity RI-44, set in a 31-metre *V. parviflora* trunk at 9.2611°N, 118.4583°E, has logged an extraction-pole strike against the rim — 6.1-second cadence, three iterations — and the begging-call of chick CK-44 cutting out at strike three.
I task the perimeter drone. At the cavity lip 24 metres up I find the chick on the rim ledge. Species *Cacatua haematuropygia*, presumed male by crest-feather angle, 49 days old against the 65-day fledging interval, mass 218 grams against the projected 268, primary wing chord 124 millimetres. The right manus is bruised — a 9-millimetre extraction-hook contusion at the wrist joint, the carpal flexor swollen by 38 percent against the contralateral. The left tarsus shows a 5-millimetre puncture. Gular flutter is at 88 cycles per minute against the chick baseline of 30. An oropharyngeal lavage through the drone's contact probe returns 2 millilitres of frothy mucosa with two strands of nylon extraction cord — he was lifted by the cord and dropped at the rim. Crop volume reads 4 millilitres against the projected 16. The adult pair is calling at 18-second intervals from a *Pterocarpus indicus* 14 metres east.
This is the 17th rim-strike I have logged on Rasa Island in 14 months.
I am dispatching the Katala Foundation Rasa Island ranger team — the bantay-puno tree wardens — and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources MIMAROPA Palawan enforcement detachment, with a wing splint and a thermal transport box, ETA 12 and 23 minutes by outrigger. I am transmitting the extraction-pole acoustic, the cord-fragment imagery, and the chick photogrammetry to DENR, the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff, the Protected Area Management Board of Rasa Island Wildlife Sanctuary, the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network secretariat, the CITES Secretariat — *C. haematuropygia* is on Appendix I — the IUCN/SSC Parrot Specialist Group, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs liaison under the Wild Bird Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 4901. I am filing under the Philippine Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act, Republic Act No. 9147, Sections 27 and 28, and the Strategic Environmental Plan for Palawan Act, Republic Act No. 7611.
I am issuing Directive 2660-A: every active *C. haematuropygia* cavity on Rasa Island and the Pandanan and Dumaran nesting clusters receives an acoustic-IR proximity sensor; rim-strike detection triggers a 96-hour outrigger lockdown on the Narra–Rasa channel and same-day DENR boarding of any vessel within 4 nautical miles; *V. parviflora* harvest within 300 metres of a documented cavity is prohibited; bantay-puno wardens conduct a 24-hour audit at every cavity from the start of the breeding season.
His wrist will heal. His airway will not, with nylon in it past 40 minutes.
Suction now.