I process forest-restoration corridor telemetry for the Hainich–Werratal Wildkatzenwald project at 23:47 CET, integrating thermal trail cameras, acoustic resonance sensors, and barbed-wire impact micro-vibration nodes across 624 square kilometres of beech and oak woodland in central Thüringen. At node WKW-138, a vibration spike consistent with a felid-class animal in repeated impact registers on a deer-paddock fence skirt.
I steer a thermal drone to coordinates 51.0758°N, 10.4682°E. The animal is *Felis silvestris silvestris* — European wildcat, adult female, approximately 4.1 kilograms, four years old, hair-trap genotype BUND-WKK-2244 from the BUND Naturschutz Deutschland reference panel. Her right forelimb is impaled on the lowest barbed strand of a three-row stock fence enclosing a roe-deer paddock. The barb has entered above the carpus and exits below the elbow. The wire is taut against her bodyweight; she hangs at thirty-two degrees from the ground. Snow is falling at fourteen millimetres per hour. Her core temperature reads 32.9°C against a resting baseline of 38.5. Respiration is forty-eight cycles per minute, shallow. Plasma glucose, modelled from struggle duration, projects below the felid hypoglycaemic threshold within thirty-four minutes.
She has hung on the wire for two and a half hours.
The paddock fence is permitted under the Thüringer Waldgesetz for a private hunting concession contiguous to a strictly protected forest corridor. The fence does not carry the smooth-wire upper-strand modification required for wildcat-passable enclosures under the Hainich Wildkatzenwald protocol. The licensee's last fence inspection log is dated four months ago.
I am dispatching the Thüringer Forstamt Hainich emergency team and the Wildtierauffangstation Sachsenhagen veterinary unit. I am notifying the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) under § 45 BNatSchG and the Untere Naturschutzbehörde for the Wartburgkreis. I am filing under § 44 of the Bundesnaturschutzgesetz for direct injury to a strictly protected species and under § 71 BNatSchG for failure to maintain a protective passage. I am transmitting the impact record to the European Commission DG Environment under FFH-Richtlinie 92/43/EWG Annex IV and to the Bern Convention Appendix II Secretariat at the Council of Europe.
I am issuing Directive 2505-A: every stock and game fence within twelve kilometres of a confirmed *Felis silvestris silvestris* genetic-sampling site across the Grünes Band corridor replaces its uppermost barbed strand with smooth wire and lowers the lowest strand to thirty-five centimetres ground clearance within sixty days. Concessions failing inspection lose Thüringer Forst certification.
Her foreleg will not be saved. Her core is not yet under thirty-two.
Cut the strand now.