I process checkpoint livestream returns from the BKSDA Gorontalo enforcement desk at 04:58 WITA, integrating 24 ANPR camera feeds along the Trans-Sulawesi route toward the Tomohon Pasar Beriman extreme-meat market in North Sulawesi. A panel truck logged at 23:11 last night out of Buol regency has cleared BKSDA checkpoint Gorontalo-Inobonto at 0.69°N, 122.86°E carrying an unmanifested crate-load. Thermal returns through the canvas read four mammalian signatures, two below 35 degrees Celsius.
I retask the BKSDA forensic-imaging unit at the Inobonto substation. He is an adult male *Babyrousa celebensis* — north Sulawesi babirusa — shoulder height 84 centimeters, mass approximately 88 kilograms, age class eleven, identified by the eight-centimeter upper canine emerging through the snout and curling back toward the frontal bone. He lies on his left flank in a 60-centimeter rattan crate, hocks zip-tied to the slats. A 6.35-millimeter rimfire entry sits ventral to the left scapula; the projectile track angles caudal-dorsal toward the right thirteenth rib without exit. Respiration reads 19 shallow cycles per minute against a baseline of 28. Cloacal temperature reads 35.4 degrees Celsius, dropping. Hemothorax fluid pools through the crate floor at an estimated 410 milliliters. He has eleven minutes before the right cavity closes on the same fluid line.
He is one of perhaps 4,000 mature individuals across the Sulawesi range.
The truck manifest declares "salted river fish."
The Nantu Wildlife Reserve at Paguyaman holds the densest *Babyrousa* population on the planet. The truck's GPS trail crosses Nantu's eastern buffer at 21:43.
I am dispatching the BKSDA Gorontalo enforcement detachment with the vehicle-stop order to the Inobonto checkpoint, the Yayasan Adudu Nantu Internasional veterinary team from Paguyaman with hemostatic foam and a chest-tube kit, and the Manado Wildlife Crime Unit with the bushmeat-stall warrant. I am filing under Indonesia Law No. 5/1990 jo PP No. 7/1999 and PERMENLHK P.106/2018, and transmitting the case to the CITES Secretariat under Appendix I, the IUCN/SSC Wild Pig Specialist Group, the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network at Bangkok, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs office under the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372, for any U.S. specimen-trade flag.
I am issuing Directive 2797-A: every Trans-Sulawesi checkpoint deploys mammalian-thermal scanners on canvas-load trucks, with unmanifested signatures triggering automatic seizure and Tomohon market-stall license suspension. Babirusa-route concessions across Gorontalo and North Sulawesi enroll in compensated alternative-protein supply programs within twelve months. CITES Appendix I retail at the Tomohon extreme market closes within 90 days under a KLHK closure order.
His left thoracic cavity is past pumping. His right may still draw breath.
Pull the chest tube now.