Wildya Events in April: Show Up for Nature

On the 22nd of April, it’ll be Earth Day. One day where the world pretends to care. We give you the chance to make the other 29 count.

We’ve lined up wild masterclasses, workshops, and other events to help you start or grow your nature venture!

If you’re into transforming the future of nature ventures, getting support while building, improving your attention/conversion or creating products, leveraging storytelling, finding new business ideas for nature, understanding the importance of trust, or using AI for your nature business… These events are made for you!

Masterclasses are live for one hour every Tuesday, exclusive to Wildya Premium members. Coffee sessions are 30 minutes, Builder’s Circle 45 minutes, both exclusive to our Premium members.

But no worries, we also have free events!

So, if you’re ready to take your biodiversity mission further with advice from those who’ve been there, done that, hop on Wildya Ecopreneur Community (no credit card required).

Oh, and here’s a little bonus for you: enjoy a 10-day free trial of the Ecopreneur Community! 🎁
PS: No credit card required until you decide to move to the Premium membership.

Ready to meet the biodiversity heroes and dive into their wild topics?

April 2nd – Builder’s Circle / Session

📅 April 2
⏰ 8 – 8:45 pm CET

Ever feel like you’re building your eco-project with 12 tabs open, 3 ideas half-written… and zero clue which one to tackle first?

That’s where the Builder’s Circle comes in.

A chill monthly meet-up where we show up, check in, and help each other get unstuck.

🔦 This Month’s Format: Builder Spotlights

This month’s session will focus on Builder Spotlights.

3 members will each bring one focused challenge or decision they’d like input on, and tap into the collective wisdom of the group.

Each Spotlight includes:

🐾 3 minutes to share the situation
🐾 8 minutes of focused peer feedback
🐾 1 minute to reflect and name your next step

If you’re not in a Spotlight slot, you’ll participate by offering ideas, perspectives, and experiences to support others.

👉 Want a Spotlight slot? Join our community and sign up to be the next spotlight builder!
(If all slots are filled, you’re welcome to join and contribute and put your name on the list for future Spotlight opportunities.)

Expect a structured, time-boxed session designed to keep things focused and practical.

See you in the circle!
You bring your project. We’ll bring the support.

April 7th – From Zoo to AI for Nature Powerhouse: How to Transform Your Legacy Nature Venture / Masterclass

📅 April 7
⏰ 1 – 2 pm CET

Douglas Eriksen was hired five years ago to modernize a traditional zoo. What he actually did was something bolder: he transformed Cango Wildlife into infrastructure for the future.

He saw that a zoo has something rare: verified biodiversity data, species expertise, institutional credibility, and infrastructure that tech companies desperately need.

He built bridges between conservation science and AI alignment. He created Project ZOA. Biological ground truth for the intelligence age. And last month, he won the Davos Innovation Award for it.

But here’s what matters for you: he didn’t do this by abandoning conservation. He did it by understanding that the nature ventures that thrive in the next five years won’t be the ones clinging to the old playbook.

They’ll be the ones asking: What infrastructure does the future actually need? And how do we position ourselves to build it?

This Tuesday he’s sharing what that transformation actually looked like. The partnerships that unlocked it. The mindset shift required. The mistakes. And how to think about your venture not as a standalone project, but as a piece of something much bigger.

You’ll walk away with:

→ How to identify partnership opportunities that scale your impact beyond what you could do alone
→ The shift from “we’re doing conservation” to “we’re building infrastructure for conservation at scale”
→ Why data integrity and verification are becoming the currency of conservation capital

He’s lived the change management. He’s building the future. He gets why you need to evolve too.

🔗 Connect with Doublas on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Cango Wildlife

April 8th – Attention/Conversion Coffee with Oliver / Session

📅 April 8
⏰ 8 – 8:30 pm CET

You want to grow your project but… don’t really know how to get people to care?

Got something in your attention or conversion that isn’t clicking?
A message that’s not landing?
An audience you’re struggling to reach?
A conversion step that feels confusing or flat?

That’s what Attention/Conversion Coffee with Oliver is for.

A chill 30-minute session with Oliver where you can ask your questions, talk through your blockers, and walk away with clarity, fast.

🚨 Only 5 spots, so everyone gets real time and real support. Make sure to RSVP!

Bring your attention + conversion challenges.
Oliver will help you unblock them.

April 14th – AI for Your Nature Venture: Where to Start & What Actually Works / Masterclass

📅 April 14
⏰ 1 – 2 pm CET

Most ecopreneurs know they should be using AI by now.

The problem is that “should” comes with zero clarity on where to actually begin. You open ChatGPT, stare at the blank prompt box, type something vague, get something vague back, and close the tab feeling like you wasted 10 minutes.

Or worse, you skip it entirely because it feels like one more thing on a list that’s already too long.

Oliver Dauert spent the last 2 years using AI across various parts of Wildya. Writing, strategy, research, content, operations. He has made mistakes so you don’t have to. He spent money on tools, so you don’t have to. Watched endless Youtube clips so you don’t have to.

He also found the spots where AI genuinely saves hours per week and the spots where it’s a total waste of time.

This Tuesday Oliver is running a hands-on session that works whether you’ve never touched AI or you’ve been dabbling but know you’re only scratching the surface.

He’ll walk through real use cases from real nature ventures, starting with the simple wins that take 5 minutes to set up, then moving into the deeper work that actually changes how much you can get done with a tiny team and no budget.

You’ll walk away with:

→ A clear picture of what AI is good at and where it falls flat (so you stop wasting time on the wrong things)
→ Different tools and areas where AI fits inside a nature venture, from content to fundraising to operations
→ How to use it to cut your time on repetitive work, reduce costs, and get more done without hiring

April 16th – Wild Idea into Action Gathering / Free Event

📅 April 16
⏰ 8 – 9 pm CET

When we launched the Free AI tool Wild Idea Finder to help folks coming up with nature NGO/companies, we didn’t expect so many people to be interested.

Yet the idea is only the 1st step. Now let’s take the second.

We will host a free event to:

✅ Give you the opportunity to share the idea you came up with
✅ Find potential co-founders, collaborators or supporters
✅ Oliver will share some useful actions you can take next

+ it holds us all accountable to pursue all these wild ideas & actually take action.

April 21st – What Nature Teaches us About Trust & Why your Venture Needs it / Masterclass

📅 April 21
⏰ 8 – 9 pm CET

You can have the best product, the most urgent mission, and a pitch that makes people nod along. If they don’t trust you, none of it matters.

Trust is what turns a website visitor into a donor. A cold email into a partnership. A first-time buyer into someone who tells their friends.

Every single thing your nature venture depends on (funding, sales, volunteers, collaborators, press) runs on trust. And most of us never think about how to actually build it.

Capri LaRocca has spent years researching one question: what can nature teach us about trust? Turns out, quite a lot.

She led the Nature of Trust project. The team studied how trust works in living systems, from cellular cooperation to symbiotic relationships between species, and pulled out 8 principles that apply directly to how humans build and break trust.

Think about it. Nature has been running partnerships for 3.8 billion years. Mycorrhizal fungi and trees share nutrients underground in exchange networks that would make any CFO jealous. Cleaner fish and reef sharks cooperate because both sides benefit and both sides show up consistently.

This Tuesday she’s bringing that work to our community and showing you how to apply it to your nature venture, whether you’re trying to win over funders, build a loyal supporter base, or get partners to take you seriously.

You’ll walk away with:

→ 8 trust principles pulled from nature that you can apply to how you run your venture, talk to supporters, and build relationships
→ A real understanding of where trust breaks down (and the biological reason why)
→ Practical ways to use these principles in your fundraising, partnerships, community building, and communications

If your nature venture depends on people believing in what you do (and it does), this one is worth your Tuesday.

🔗 Connect with Capri on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore the Nature of Trust
🔗 Explore Biomimicry for Social Innovation

April 22nd – Nature Impact Scaling Workshop / Free Event

📅 April 22
⏰ 8 – 9 pm CET

How to grow your nature venture’s revenue, visibility, traction and impact.

Trump, Omnibus rollback, USAID cuts, corporate disinterest.

Not an easy time for us nature people right now.

Time to put the power back into our hands and focus on what we can control.

Join Oliver for a FREE hands-on 45-minute workshop where we’ll share the 4-part formula we use to help nature founders scale their nature impact in these crazy times.

Why you should join:

✅ Designed for nature-focused NGOs & Businesses
✅ Understand where you are currently blocked & fix it
✅ Learn the system we used to help 20+ nature ventures grow their impact
✅ Build a roadmap to stop spinning & start scaling
✅ Get honest, real-world strategies (no hype, no fluff)

What you’ll walk away with:

🐾 The Nature Impact Formula
🐾 A self-assessment to identify your biggest scaling bottleneck
🐾 3 practical tips for each part of the formula you can apply right after the webinar
🐾 Case examples of biodiversity ventures turning visibility into impact
🐾 A chance to ask me your questions & challenges live

April 23rd – Product Coffee with Michelle / Session

📅 April 23
⏰ 8 – 8:30 pm CET

You want to build a product but… feel a bit lost in the process?

Got something in your Product that isn’t clicking?
A feature you’re not sure how to shape?
A flow that just doesn’t feel right?
A direction you’re unsure about?

Bring it to Product Coffee with Michelle.

A chill 30-minute session with Michelle (co-founder & head of product) where you can ask your Product questions, talk through your blockers, and walk away with clarity, fast.

🚨Only 5 spots, so everyone gets real time and real support. Make sure to RSVP!

Bring your Product problems.
Michelle will help you unblock them.

April 28th – Tell Better Stories, Save More Ocean with Karim Iliya / Masterclass

📅 April 28
⏰ 1 – 2 pm CET

You can have the most important mission on Earth and still lose people’s attention in 3 seconds. That’s the reality for most nature ventures.

The science is there. The urgency is there. The work on the ground is real. But if you can’t tell the story in a way that makes someone stop scrolling, stop walking, stop whatever they’re doing and actually care, the rest doesn’t matter.

Data doesn’t move people. Stories do.

Karim Iliya knows this better than most. He’s a wildlife photographer and filmmaker who’s shot for Apple, National Geographic, Netflix, and Adidas and has 212,000 people following his work on Instagram.

But the thing that matters most for this session is what he did next. He co-founded Kogia, a nonprofit conservation studio with a free oceanic media library, a fellowship program for emerging nature storytellers, and a production studio dedicated to protecting marine life.

He looked at the ocean storytelling space and saw a bottleneck: the people doing the conservation work on the ground often don’t have access to the footage, photos, or storytelling support they need to actually get their message out. So he built the infrastructure to fix that.

This Tuesday he’s sharing why storytelling is the most underused tool in conservation, what separates a story that gets shared from one that gets ignored, and how you can tell better stories about your nature venture even if you’ve never picked up a camera.

He’ll break down what he’s learned from years of getting millions of people to care about whales, sharks, and ocean ecosystems, and how those same principles apply whether you’re writing a fundraising email, posting on social media, or pitching a partner.

You’ll walk away with:

→ Why Karim built Kogia and what it tells you about the gap between doing good work and getting people to pay attention
→ Practical tips for telling stories that actually land with people (even if you’re not a filmmaker or photographer)
→ How to think about visual storytelling for your nature venture, regardless of your budget or skills
→ Where most nature ventures go wrong with their messaging and how to fix it

If you’ve ever felt like your work deserves more attention than it gets, this session will show you why the story you’re telling or not telling might be the reason.

🔗 Connect with Karim on Instagram
🔗 Explore Karim’s work
🔗 Explore Kogia

Interested in attending these events and starting to scale your nature mission? Join our Wildya Ecopreneur Community now and benefit from a 10-day free trial (no credit card required)!

The recordings of the masterclasses will also be available afterwards for our Wildya Premium members, in case you’re too busy rewilding nature!

So ready to join the Wildya Ecopreneur Community?

PS: No credit card required until you decide to move to the Premium membership.