Dear Pl@ntNet users,
Thank you for sharing your passion for the plant world with Pl@ntNet! The entire team is proud to present Pl@ntNet’s latest achievements and to invite you to support this meaningful project once again through our 2025 donation campaign.
Thanks to your generosity, we were able to reach major milestones again last year. But the work continues. We’re planning new developments to offer you an ever more complete experience for observing, understanding, and safeguarding plant biodiversity all around the globe.
In 2023, we reached a major milestone: Pl@ntNet reached one billion plant identifications. Today, just two years later, we’ve surpassed 1.3 billion plant identifications and we now cover 77,700 different plant species. Your contributions made this possible, but they also helped support more than 1,300 scientific publications based on this data, consolidating our crucial role in biodiversity understanding and protection.
Where do your donations go?
- Server acquisition and maintenance and the infrastructure that Pl@ntNet relies on – this represents about a quarter of our expenses
- Strengthening our team with two full-time paid staff members to maintain and develop the Pl@ntNet platform
- Experimenting with new methods to improve our artificial intelligence-based identification model
- Improving our interfaces and developing new features like exploring species around you or deploying a more recent embedded model for offline identification
- Expanding Pl@ntNet to cover more species and achieve better spatial coverage
GeoPl@ntNet: a new tool in the Pl@ntNet ecosystem
GeoPl@ntNet is now available! This mapping tool allows you to explore Europe in detail, display a wide variety of biodiversity indicators, and visualize this data at a 50×50 meter resolution!
The result of this work allows you to explore the plants you’re likely to observe in each zone you select in Europe. It’s based on an innovative approach to predict the plant biodiversity that surrounds us, and will eventually enable better integration of impacts on biodiversity while promoting the acquisition of new botanical knowledge. Like Pl@ntNet, GeoPl@ntNet is not a static initiative and will continue to evolve in 2026.
Our other projects
In the coming years, several projects will enrich Pl@ntNet. The application will gradually integrate textual descriptions and species characteristics to facilitate their identification. Collaborative spaces for data review and validation will also emerge to strengthen data quality. Finally, new features more oriented toward agro-ecology will be tested.
Why is your support essential?
Your generosity is essential for keeping Pl@ntNet applications free, independent, and ad-free, and for them to continue being a resource accessible to everyone. We’re therefore launching our donation collection campaign on our website and mobile application. Every donation counts, regardless of the amount. Thanks to you, we can continue our goal of broader sharing of biodiversity knowledge.
To make a donation now, simply click the button below:
The Pl@ntNet team thanks you from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support. Your contributions make a difference and allow us to continue our mission of sharing and preserving plant biodiversity. We wish you wonderful botanical discoveries.
With all our gratitude and enthusiasm,
The Pl@ntNet Team
