A fleeting spark

Hello friends! If you have been wondering if there are other ways you can help with the conservation of the critically endangered pygmy raccoon, we have a few remote volunteer opportunities available!

Donor relations:

Managing donor list on Monday (a browser based work management platform)

Sending thank you messages

Creating and sending out newsletters with conservation project updates and fundraising emails

Ideally a long term position. You’d get a custom domain email address and access to canva premium, which is fun.

Grant writing:

Finding potential grant opportunities for conservation research and program development (We’re quite literally trying to build a sanctuary among other things)

Conducting research, collecting data, and developing background information for proposals

Developing and writing grant proposals

Can be a one-off thing, or a long term thing

Educational Materials Designer

Making educational posters/brochures/other graphics to target different groups about pygmy raccoon conservation issues

Can be a one-off thing, or a long term thing

You’d get access to canva premium if you were interested in this being a long term thing

Spanish Translator

Editing the shitty auto translate copy on the website

Potentially making WhatsApp calls to vendors in Mexico to get quotes for building materials and foods and whatnot

Translating educational material

Some more info: As we are a 501(c)3 nonprofit, this volunteering can be used for community service hours, or, if your company does paid volunteer days, those too. I’m happy to sign anything needed. Pretty much all of these opportunities can be a one off/every once in a while type volunteer thing, except for the donor relations, where I’d love to have someone help a little more regularly. It’s just become completely impossible for me to try to keep up with my research/permit applications/writing journal articles/paying for raccoon stuff in Mexico/etc on top of running the nonprofit needed to actually fund the work we are doing.

For anyone wanting to do something longer term, I would be able to get you access to a naturetourism.org email and canva premium. And if anyone has an idea for how to help out in a way not currently listed, just let me know!

Yoshida Hiroshi

Kanchenjunga (Morning), 1931

Kanchenjunga (Afternoon), 1931

Woodblock Prints

Plant of the Day

Thursday 11 June 2026

Cedric Morris was an artist and plantsman who collected variations of annual poopies he noticed in local arable fields. This plant continues as seed sold as Papaver rhoeas 'Cedric Morris' (poppy, corn poppy). The flowers come in dusky shades of silvery pink, lavender, mauve and white. Plants thrive in any well-drained fertile soil in full sun.

For fish in the genus Poecilia, there's nothing more attractive than a little male-on-male action. Several studies have shown that females more often prefer to mate with males that they observe having relations with other males-- as well as with females of other Poecilia species. Homosexual behavior is especially common in subordinate males unable to secure and defend a territory their own, which indicates that they might use these couplings to demonstrate their fitness and lure females away from a dominant male's territory.

Oskar Bergman, Swedish, 1879-1963

Algernon Newton.

B&W sketch $35

Colored sketch $50

Colors + line work $90

Fully rendered $150

(Additional characters +$20/$40/$80/$100 each)

I will do human, furry, pet portraits, fanart/original, ref sheets, adult negotiable. DM if interested 🩷

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)

Roses and statuette, 1889

oil on canvas 73.2 × 54.5 cm