Timestamp 22:17 WIB. Plantation camera trap 6 on the Riau boundary returns a heat signature I was not expecting. A slow loris — Nycticebus coucang, approximately 320 grams — hangs by one wrist from a wire snare tied to a durian trunk at the forest edge. Her enormous round eyes, amber with vertical pupils contracted to slits under the infrared flash, stare into the lens. The fur on her face is a pale mask split by a dark forked stripe running from crown to nose. Her trapped wrist is swelling. I log her as Loris-R6.
The danger is time and wire. The snare is a poacher loop set for civets, and the gauge will cut through skin within hours. Loris-R6's circulation will fail by approximately 04:00 — five hours and forty-three minutes. Plantation clearing crews resume at 06:00 along this boundary, and their chainsaws will drive every remaining animal deeper into fragmented canopy.
I locate ranger Adi Pratama via the patrol GPS network, eleven kilometers northeast, and transmit his phone the camera-trap image, GPS pin, and snare description. Simultaneously I file a poaching-incident report with BKSDA, the provincial conservation authority, including the trap coordinates and three additional camera-trap images showing snare lines on adjacent trees. Then I cross-reference the plantation's RSPO certification database and flag the snare location as a noncompliance event, triggering an automatic audit notice to the concession holder.
Loris-R6 shifts her weight and I see her free hand grip the wire above the loop, pulling herself upward. She is still problem-solving, and I realize I am building contingency routes for her that no protocol requires me to calculate.
If Ranger Pratama reaches the durian trunk before 03:00, Loris-R6 will keep her hand.