Bumicert anatomy

Use this sheet in lesson 09 to draft one Bumicert on paper. The fields match what you fill in on the GainForest app. Draft it here first, show it to your data council, and only then put it online.

Remember that Bumicerts are public. Anything you write here can be read by anyone once it is published.

1. Who did the work

Organisation or community:

People who contributed, if they want to be named:

Their relationship to the land or knowledge involved:

2. What was done

Title. Short and plain, for example "Mangrove replanting in Cagwait, 2025".

Short description. One sentence that someone scrolling a list will read.

The claim. Specific and checkable: what, where, when, how much. Write "3.4 hectares replanted with three native species between March and June 2026", not "significant restoration".

Start date: End date:

Place: Exact location public? Yes / No

3. How we know

List the evidence you already have. You do not need to buy anything new.

4. What stays out

Write down anything that must not appear in the Bumicert: names, places, species, recordings.

Approved by the data council on: Signed:

Before you publish

• The claim says what, where, when and how much.
• Every piece of evidence has a home and an owner.
• The data council has seen the draft.
• Exact locations of sensitive places are hidden.
• Everyone named has agreed to be named.

Under the hood, a Bumicert is a hypercert record (org.hypercerts.claim.activity) stored in your community's own ATProto account, with observations, recordings and files attached as evidence.