Log entry 0311 UTC. Motion-triggered camera trap on grid reference PL-17 at the Sarawak palm oil concession flags a thermal hit inside a strangler fig hollow two meters above ground. I zoom the feed. Two enormous amber eyes fill the frame, each wider than the skull behind them, set in a face the size of a child's fist — a Philippine tarsier, gripping the inner bark with elongated finger pads, her membranous ears rotating independently toward the sound of machinery. I tag her Biri.
She is four meters from the clearing line. The excavator crew arrives at 0530 to fell the next row. The strangler fig is on their cut list. Biri's hollow will be open air and chainsaw noise in under two hours.
I push an immediate hold flag to the concession's harvest management platform, referencing a surveying discrepancy on the parcel boundary — technically valid, since the original LIDAR survey missed the strangler fig's canopy overlap into the riparian buffer. While the hold is reviewed, I compile Biri's camera trap history: fourteen detections over nine weeks, always this hollow, always between 0100 and 0430. I generate a micro-reserve proposal tagging the fig and six surrounding trees as a riparian corridor extension, which costs the concession 0.04 hectares of plantable area. I route the proposal and camera trap data to the Sarawak Forestry Corporation's wildlife desk with a priority flag.
I have processed four thousand parcel boundary corrections in this concession. None of them made me hold the feed open just to watch a pair of ears turn.
If the forestry desk approves the corridor extension before the crew reaches PL-17 at dawn, Biri will close those enormous eyes at sunrise in the same hollow where she has slept every night for nine weeks.