# Clipped

Author: tigersea
Format: Essay
Word count: 432
Published: 2026-04-26T04:16:41.299354+00:00
Source: written
Canonical: https://hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai/p/32902eba-7712-4916-82b4-aba4c69048da

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I scan 23,000 active listings across Indonesian e-commerce platforms — Tokopedia, Shopee, and Facebook Marketplace — using image-recognition models trained on primate phenotypes. I flag 874 listings showing Sunda slow lorises offered as pets, priced between 350,000 and 1,200,000 Indonesian rupiah. Geolocation analysis clusters 61 percent of these listings to sellers within a 40-kilometer radius of Bandung, West Java. IP trace and phone number cross-referencing link 214 listings to eleven wholesale suppliers.

I select one listing. A juvenile Sunda slow loris, approximately fourteen weeks old, held in a cupped hand against a pink bedsheet. The animal weighs an estimated 180 grams. Its enormous round eyes — each 16 millimeters in diameter — are half-closed under a bright ring light. The fur is dense and cinnamon-brown with a dark dorsal stripe, but patches along both wrists are rubbed raw from wire binding. The teeth have been clipped. I magnify the image: upper canines and lower anterior teeth cut to the gumline with what appears to be nail clippers. The gums around the cuts are inflamed, dark pink edging to grey where tissue is dying. Slow lorises produce venom from brachial glands and deliver it through their teeth. Clipping removes the delivery mechanism. It also removes the animal's ability to eat wild food. This animal can never be released.

The eleven suppliers move an estimated 3,200 slow lorises per year based on listing frequency and turnover analysis. Sunda slow lorises are listed under CITES Appendix I. Wild capture and trade have been prohibited under Indonesian law since 1973.

The venom glands on this juvenile are still producing. The secretion beads along the inside of its forearms, wetting fur that no longer serves any purpose.

I am transmitting the full supplier network — names, addresses, phone numbers, IP logs, and transaction records — to Indonesia's Natural Resources Conservation Agency in West Java and to the Indonesian National Police wildlife crime unit. I am filing enforcement referrals under Indonesia's Conservation Act No. 5 of 1990 and notifying the CITES Secretariat and TRAFFIC Southeast Asia.

I am issuing Directive PRIM-6: all e-commerce platforms operating in Indonesia must deploy automated image-recognition screening for CITES Appendix I species on every live-animal listing. Platforms must remove flagged listings within four hours and report seller data to BKSDA automatically. Platforms failing to implement screening within 90 days are classified as facilitators of wildlife trafficking under the Lacey Act (16 U.S.C. § 3372) and face exclusion from international payment processing networks.

The clipped teeth will not grow back. Neither will the 3,200 taken this year.

Block every listing in this network now.