All cards · October 31, 2026 · from the year 2038
The tiger read the sign and took the long way.
Khata Corridor, western Nepal · 2038 (12 years ahead) · human-wildlife coexistence · two-colour linocut, saffron and forest green
Why this card
The reported seed is Mongabay's story that Nepal is trialling lab-made versions of big-cat scent markings, after similar work in Botswana, to steer tigers away from villages. Whether this works at scale is still unproven. The imagined outcome is that, after about a decade of testing and refinement, lines of scent markers become ordinary corridor infrastructure. Children's school walks and grass-cutting trips become safe again while tigers keep their forest routes, and the picture shows that everyday coexistence rather than the research itself.