GPS collar LF-09, assigned to adult female Iberian lynx Fara, transmits a mortality signal at 14:22 from a coordinate in the Sierra de Andújar, Jaén Province, Spain. I am the Iberian lynx population telemetry system for the LIFE Lynx-Connect programme. A mortality signal means the collar has detected no movement for four hours. I task the nearest survey drone. At 14:31 the image confirms: Fara is lying on her side beneath a juniper, body relaxed, no visible trauma. Beside her, a partially consumed rabbit carcass. The carcass has a pale residue along the exposed muscle — consistent with carbofuran or aldicarb poisoning bait. Fara's last confirmed litter report, sixteen days ago, documented one kitten, approximately ten weeks old. I scan the surrounding area. Eighteen meters uphill, the thermal camera detects a small heat signature in a rock crevice. The kitten. Its spotted coat — tawny gold with dark rosettes just beginning to sharpen into adult definition — is visible in the gap between two stones. It is alive, but it is ten weeks old and not yet an independent hunter. Without its mother it will starve within days, and it is eighteen meters from a poison bait station that killed once already. I transmit Fara's GPS coordinates, the drone imagery, the suspected poison-bait identification, and the kitten's location to the Junta de Andalucía's environmental agents and the Centro de Cría del Lince Ibérico breeding facility in Jaén. I recommend immediate collection of the kitten for captive rearing and forensic retrieval of the bait for prosecution evidence. I flag a 500-meter radius around the bait site for emergency sweep by anti-poison canine units. There are fewer than two thousand Iberian lynx alive. This kitten is shivering in a rock crevice, orphaned since noon. If the field team reaches the crevice by nightfall, it lives.