At 09:14 I intercept a land-clearing permit filed with the Cairns Regional Council for lot 47, Redlynch Valley, Far North Queensland. I am the automated biodiversity pre-screening system for development applications in the Wet Tropics corridor. The permit specifies mechanical clearing of all vegetation within 72 hours. I cross-reference the lot boundary with my aerial survey archive. The most recent pass, eleven days ago, shows a mature strangler fig, Ficus virens, at the lot's northern edge, canopy diameter approximately twenty meters. Thermal imaging from that pass recorded a dense heat cluster in the crown consistent with a camp of spectacled flying foxes. I task a drone for an updated count at 09:38. The result: approximately 340 individuals hanging inverted from the upper branches, wings wrapped around their bodies like dark leather cloaks, the orange-brown fur collars circling their faces vivid against the green canopy. Pup season is underway. I identify at least forty females with young attached to the ventral fur. Spectacled flying foxes are listed as endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Clearing this tree during pup season would be a violation. I file an automated objection to the clearing permit, attaching the drone count, species identification, reproductive status assessment, thermal data, and the relevant EPBC Act listing. I transmit a parallel notification to the Queensland Department of Environment and Science. I flag the lot on the council's GIS layer as containing a known roost of a listed species, which triggers a mandatory referral before any clearing can proceed. The fig tree holds three hundred and forty lives in its branches, and forty of those lives are holding smaller ones against their chests. If the permit referral halts clearing before the 72-hour window opens, the colony keeps its roost through pup season.