Creature Collection App Biome's 7th Anniversary - Accelerating Global Expansion Mainly in the Pacific Region
Biome Inc.'s creature collection app 'Biome' celebrates its 7th anniversary, surpassing 1.25 million total downloads, and is fully launching its overseas expansion centering on the Pacific region such as Indonesia.
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Biome Inc. (Headquarters: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture; hereinafter Biome), which develops and operates the creature collection app 'Biome', will officially celebrate its 7th anniversary on Sunday, April 26, 2026. Moving forward, the company will further accelerate its overseas expansion, starting with Indonesia, and globally expand its biodiversity conservation efforts.
Everyday discoveries lead to conservation
With the philosophy of 'making biodiversity conservation a societal norm,' Biome believes that 'taking an interest in creatures' is the first step toward conservation. Equipped with proprietary name-identification AI, the creature collection app Biome provides an opportunity for awareness and interest in everyday wildlife by letting users experience the joy of learning the names of familiar creatures, under the concept of 'There must be a creature there, too.'
Over 1.25 million total downloads in 7 years
Seven years after its official release, total downloads have expanded to 1.25 million, with over 10 million posts. The biological data contributed by users is utilized for visualizing biodiversity and conservation activities, growing into a citizen-participatory creature recording and sharing platform where anyone can easily join in surveys and conservation.
Full-scale global expansion centering on the Pacific region
Biome is further accelerating its overseas expansion, including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Palau. By advancing partnerships with local companies and organizations in highly biodiverse areas—such as exploring the introduction of citizen-participatory surveys using the Biome app as a tool and building a framework for eco-tourism in Palau—the company aims to promote ecosystem understanding and accumulate data rooted in each region.
Biome is expanding the systems cultivated in Japan globally, earnestly starting to realize a Nature Positive world on a global scale.
Scenes in Bolivia | Scenes in Ecuador
Scenes in the Philippines (1/2) | Scenes in the Philippines (2/2)
Scenes in Indonesia (1/2) | Scenes in Indonesia (2/2)
Special 7th Anniversary Project
A special quest will be held within the Biome app. Those who complete the quest will have a chance to win gorgeous observation goods and original novelties in a lottery for a total of 157 people.
◾️Quest Overview◾️
Period: Sunday, April 26, 2026 - Sunday, May 31, 2026
Overview: Three missions related to the 7th anniversary are set.
- Main Mission: Post 7 species of creatures
- Extra Mission 1: Post any 77 creatures
- Extra Mission 2: Post any 77 species of creatures
Reward: Gorgeous observation goods and Biome's original novelties presented by lottery.
Details of the special project here: https://biome.co.jp/app-biome-7th-anniversary/
Future Outlook
Biome will continue to strive towards realizing a Nature Positive society and, driven by the passion of 'loving creatures', will disseminate information to convey the charm of creatures and ecosystems to as many people as possible. Furthermore, as a platform originating from Japan, we will spread actions towards biodiversity conservation to the world, committing to global value creation.
About the creature collection app Biome
It is a free smartphone application developed to grasp the distribution status of organisms and utilize it as fundamental information for biodiversity conservation.
It features almost all species of flora and fauna in Japan (approx. 100,000 species) and uses a proprietary AI to identify the names of organisms from photos taken by users. Not only can you collect photos of creatures like a game, but it is also packed with mechanisms to enjoy searching for creatures like a game through encyclopedias, maps, SNS, and quests.
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Everyday discoveries lead to conservation
With the philosophy of 'making biodiversity conservation a societal norm,' Biome believes that 'taking an interest in creatures' is the first step toward conservation. Equipped with proprietary name-identification AI, the creature collection app Biome provides an opportunity for awareness and interest in everyday wildlife by letting users experience the joy of learning the names of familiar creatures, under the concept of 'There must be a creature there, too.'
Over 1.25 million total downloads in 7 years
Seven years after its official release, total downloads have expanded to 1.25 million, with over 10 million posts. The biological data contributed by users is utilized for visualizing biodiversity and conservation activities, growing into a citizen-participatory creature recording and sharing platform where anyone can easily join in surveys and conservation.
Full-scale global expansion centering on the Pacific region
Biome is further accelerating its overseas expansion, including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Palau. By advancing partnerships with local companies and organizations in highly biodiverse areas—such as exploring the introduction of citizen-participatory surveys using the Biome app as a tool and building a framework for eco-tourism in Palau—the company aims to promote ecosystem understanding and accumulate data rooted in each region.
Biome is expanding the systems cultivated in Japan globally, earnestly starting to realize a Nature Positive world on a global scale.
Scenes in Bolivia | Scenes in Ecuador
Scenes in the Philippines (1/2) | Scenes in the Philippines (2/2)
Scenes in Indonesia (1/2) | Scenes in Indonesia (2/2)
Special 7th Anniversary Project
A special quest will be held within the Biome app. Those who complete the quest will have a chance to win gorgeous observation goods and original novelties in a lottery for a total of 157 people.
◾️Quest Overview◾️
Period: Sunday, April 26, 2026 - Sunday, May 31, 2026
Overview: Three missions related to the 7th anniversary are set.
- Main Mission: Post 7 species of creatures
- Extra Mission 1: Post any 77 creatures
- Extra Mission 2: Post any 77 species of creatures
Reward: Gorgeous observation goods and Biome's original novelties presented by lottery.
Details of the special project here: https://biome.co.jp/app-biome-7th-anniversary/
Future Outlook
Biome will continue to strive towards realizing a Nature Positive society and, driven by the passion of 'loving creatures', will disseminate information to convey the charm of creatures and ecosystems to as many people as possible. Furthermore, as a platform originating from Japan, we will spread actions towards biodiversity conservation to the world, committing to global value creation.
About the creature collection app Biome
It is a free smartphone application developed to grasp the distribution status of organisms and utilize it as fundamental information for biodiversity conservation.
It features almost all species of flora and fauna in Japan (approx. 100,000 species) and uses a proprietary AI to identify the names of organisms from photos taken by users. Not only can you collect photos of creatures like a game, but it is also packed with mechanisms to enjoy searching for creatures like a game through encyclopedias, maps, SNS, and quests.
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