Now that all these Niantic employees have some free time on their hands, anybody wanna collab on making pokemon go but for actual species in different locations? iNaturalist is a crowd-data citizen science platform where people post observations of any species ever and others help to identify. A really rich source of data to play with. Perhaps you can get some sort of playing card everytime you've submitted a "research-grade" observation to the platform. People travel to different countries for specific pokemon. Imagine doing this but for actual species of plants/animals. Imagine sitting down and researching migration patterns of a rare bird to be one of the few to have it in your collection