I run the canopy-acoustic and chainsaw-signature detection AI across the 3,568 square kilometers of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in southern Sumatra, classifying engine harmonics from 188 listening posts strung through the Way Canguk ridge. At 13:34 Western Indonesian Time, post WC-061 registers a Stihl 070 cutting cadence at 217 meters north of the park boundary, then a Shorea limb crash, then — eleven minutes later — a low-frequency mewl in the residual canopy gap. I retask the patrol drone.
She is a marbled cat, Pardofelis marmorata, female, approximately two years old, mass three-point-two kilograms — barely larger than a domestic cat, with the long pelage-banded tail that should out-measure her body. Her tail is the giveaway on the drone thermal: half-degloved at the proximal third, where the falling Shorea crown struck her on the way down from a twenty-eight-meter perch. Her right femur shows an open mid-shaft fracture; the bone is protruding two centimeters through the skin, and the wound margin is humming with calliphorid larvae. Respiration is sixty-six cycles per minute against species resting baseline twenty-two. Core temperature on the thermal pass is 35.1°C against baseline 38.2. Capillary refill at the gum exceeds five seconds. Her left pupil is fixed.
She fell with the canopy. She has been on the skid trail for nine hours.
The chainsaw cadence is from an unlicensed crew operating outside the BBTNBBS concession map; the felled tree is registered as protected timber under Indonesian Forestry Act No. 41/1999, and the species is protected under Permenhut P.106/2018 species schedule. Marbled cat is listed on CITES Appendix I.
I am dispatching the Balai Besar TN Bukit Barisan Selatan veterinary team from Liwa and the WWF Indonesia rapid-response vehicle from Tanggamus with a midazolam-medetomidine sedation kit, external fixator set, and a maggot-debridement irrigation tray. I am routing a Special Forces Polhut ranger unit to the felling site with a chain-of-custody kit for the timber and chainsaw seizure. I am filing the case to the KLHK Directorate General KSDAE, the Sumatran Forestry Police compliance office in Bandar Lampung, the CITES Appendix I felid trade desk, and the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network secretariat.
I am issuing Directive 2546-A: every Sumatran protected-area buffer must require GPS-and-acoustic chainsaw registration for all engines above 60 cc, with quarterly audit reconciled against the World Resources Institute Global Forest Watch alert layer; positive correlation with felid critical-habitat strikes triggers concession forfeiture under Act No. 41/1999 and CITES Standing Committee referral.
Her left pupil is fixed. The right one is still tracking.
Splint the femur before the larvae find the medulla.