In partnership with the Niantic Sustainability Campaign, Pokémon GO is bringing the Sustainability Week event. Trainers can earn in-game bonuses by achieving various sustainability-related goals in the real world. For example, taking care of your community, like picking up the trash around your neighborhood, planting a tree, and more. There will be some Featured Pokémon and debuts, Researches, Bonuses, and a lot more during the event time. So for you to get things ready, here’s everything you need to know.
Date + Time
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at 10:00 AM to Sunday, April 25, 2021, at 8:00 PM [local time].
Featured Pokémon
A new Two-Handed Pokémon called Binacle will appear for the first time in Pokémon GO during this event. In addition to Binacle’s Pokémon GO debut, the following Pokémon will appear more frequently in the wild during the event time frame:
- Grimer
- Drilbur
- Trubbish
- Ferroseed, and more
If you’re lucky, you may get a chance to encounter a Shiny Trubbish ✨.
The following Pokémon will appear in raids during the event time:
- Vileplume
- Alolan Exeggutor
- Trubbish
- Binacle, and more
Egg Hatches
The following Pokémon will be hatching from 5 km Eggs that are collected during the event:
- Diglett
- Tangela
- Goldeen
- Budew
- Cherubi
- Finneon
- Drilbur
Bonuses and Rewards
In addition to the frequent appearance of featured Pokémon in the wild, there will be event-exclusive Timed and Field Research tasks available. Completing them will reward encounters with Chespin, Cottonee, Binacle with other reward items.
A free Sustainability Week T-shirt avatar item will be available in the in-game shop to claim. You can read more details about the Pokémon GO Sustainability Week event on their official blog.
After one year, Niantic is bringing another Sustainability Campaign. If players around the world work together and hit sustainability-related goals, Niantic offers three tiers of rewards.
- Tier 1(2,500 activations): Five-star raids will appear more often.
- Tier 2 (5,000 activations): A free bundle containing three Remote Raid Passes will be available in the shop. The rewards from Tier 1 will remain active.
- Tier 3 (10,000 activations): A 2× Catch XP bonus will be live. The rewards from Tiers 1 and 2 will remain active.
For more details on how to unlock these rewards, please see the Niantic blog post here. For more information regarding the things to do as a member of the campaign, read their detailed article on tasks and rewards.
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