Marina Mura · Taina field interview
AI Assistants
Storyteller AI companions that help communities archive and share knowledge in their own language; starting with Taina, co-designed in Greater Manaus.
Open tools for regenerative intelligence
Explore nature projects around the world, support community-led restoration, and create Bumicerts that make ecological stewardship visible and verifiable.
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Discover projects and ecosystems across the world. Explore, learn, and get inspired.
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02 · Meet the certificateLiveThe three most recent Bumicerts, fetched live from the GainForest indexer.
What's a Bumicert?
An environmental impact certificate issued by the community doing the work. Each Bumicert binds photos, audio, and field notes into a verifiable, portable record on ATProto.
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Protecting Bakossi forest through sustainable farming in Bangem
About the Project and the Ecosystem
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Reforestando(NOS): community nurseries to restore Puerto Rico coastline
Reforestando(Nos): Protecting Puerto Rico's Communities
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Tierra Valiente’s Living Lab and Healing Arts Community
Round 2 deepens Tierra Valiente's evolution as a living laboratory for exploring how we can decommodify land, create biological corridors supporting wild movement, and reduce environmental threats while establishing healing arts practices that restore community and individual wellbeing.
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How it works
Most climate finance never reaches the grassroots. We close that loop with local-first technology, community-owned data, and open protocols.
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Community-owned data
Communities self-host their fieldwork on their own ATProto PDS, with models, workshops, and tooling from GainForest.
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Issue a Bumicert
Each community mints a Bumicert that binds their photos, audio, and field notes into one signed record.
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Donors, foundations, and allies find verified, community-led work through Green Globe and the Bumicerts directory.
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Every record lives on ATProto, so the same impact story flows to partners like Ma Earth and Hypercerts. No lock-in.
Open data commons
The world's first community-owned data commons for biodiversity.
Only 1% of global biodiversity data comes from the world's largest rainforests. We're changing this by turning local communities into Indigenous scientists; and helping organisations build equitable data products that can preserve nature.
Local-first AI
We build local-first technology and AI
Three open research pillars that turn community-collected data into tools the community keeps.
Oceanus Conservation · mangrove fieldwork
Bioacoustics
Passive listening stations in the canopy. Open species classifiers turn dawn choruses into living, queryable biodiversity records.
Aerial canopy · tree-crown segmentation
Remote Sensing
Satellite + drone analysis that lets nature stewards prove canopy gain, carbon stock, and habitat continuity over time.
Indigenous AI Assistant
Meet Taina, our community AI.
Taina guides local and Indigenous communities through storytelling on how to archive and share knowledge. The data she collects is self-hosted or governed through a community-elected GainForest Data Council; never extracted.
Co-designed with Indigenous scientists from Greater Manaus; part of GainForest's Nature Guild collaboration.
Indigenous scientists · Greater Manaus
Research
We research and innovate together.
Based on community-collected high-quality data, our non-profit hosts annual hackathons in Switzerland and globally to innovate together on AI and data visualisations for nature.
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We listen to our Nature Guild.
Learning together and shaping new ways to govern nature stewardship; the Guild is a rotating circle of community scientists, ecologists, and field leads who steer GainForest's research priorities.
Stephen Bright Sakwa
Bees & Trees, Uganda
Jaya Kandir
Darukaa Earth, India
Esayu Daniel
YLEC, Uganda
Njambi Njoroge
Grassroots Economics, Kenya
Simon Peter Okoth
Climatica Foundation, Uganda
Marina Mura
Inhaã-bé, Brazil
Nurfatin Hamzah
GainForest, Malaysia
Tin Dalida
WOVOKA, the Philippines
Partners
Working with nature stewards globally.
Our non-profit collaborates with grassroots cooperatives, Indigenous councils, ecological labs, and protected-area managers across four continents.
50nature partners worldwide
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Impact report
Read our 3rd annual impact report.
The 24/25 report unpacks our global mission, the year's grants, community-led research highlights, and the financials; audited and open.
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May 14, 202601 · LaunchSimocracy launches with AI digital twins allocating a community treasury
A mini-documentary follows the Frontier Tower experiment with GainForest, Hypercerts, Funding the Commons, and community sims deliberating over shared funding.
Funding the Commons
May 4, 202602 · FeatureAfter The Algorithm exhibits Tainá with GainForest
The Zürich festival presents Tainá as a work co-developed with Indigenous communities, showing how local knowledge, languages, and data stay community-governed.
After The Algorithm
Feb 25, 202603 · BlogField Notes from Sabah: Rethinking How We Certify Learning
What a board, markers, and three questions taught us about measuring real change
GainForest Blog
Feb 23, 202604 · BlogUganda's Green Leaders Take on Web3
A Recap of the Web3 for Environment Workshop, Kampala, Uganda, 14th February 2026
GainForest Blog
Jan 7, 202605 · BlogEnvironmental Impact Certificates: Financial Barriers, Data Realities, and the Quiet Intelligence of Community Projects
By Diego Rivera, Niña Cerilla, & Nurfatin Hamzah
GainForest Blog
Dec 4, 202506 · GrantGainForest selected for Klarna's AI for Climate Resilience Program
Klarna names GainForest e.V. among six selected innovators using AI to support communities on the climate frontlines.
Klarna
Jun 28, 202507 · HackathonGainForest DeepGov team wins the Bhutan NDI-powered international hackathon
Kuensel reports that Team DeepGov and Team Cyberchain emerged as winners of Bhutan's three-day hackathon for decentralised applications powered by National Digital Identity.
Kuensel
May 7, 202508 · TalkGainForest at ChangeNOW: nature as an economic choice
ChangeNOW's mainstage conversation features GainForest's approach to AI, remote sensing, blockchain, and ecosystem monitoring for nature finance.
ChangeNOW
Mar 8, 202509 · DocumentaryCNA documents how GainForest helps locals conserve mangroves in the Philippines
Tech To Save The World visits the Philippines to show how data collection and AI-backed tools can support mangrove conservation with local communities.
CNA Insider
Feb 25, 202510 · FeatureAtmos features Taina as Indigenous communities safeguard culture with their own ChatGPT
The Atmos feature follows Tainá, GainForest's community-owned AI assistant for storing local knowledge, stories, and biodiversity observations on community terms.
Atmos
Feb 17, 202511 · TalkGainForest bridges nature, data, and human opportunity
Funding the Commons features GainForest's model for conservation data income and regenerative funding for rainforest communities.
Funding the Commons
Jan 9, 202512 · PodcastConservation Data Income with GainForest
Ma Earth hosts the GainForest team for a long-form conversation on the origin story, current initiatives, retro funding, AI, Web3, and XPRIZE.
Ma Earth
Dec 12, 202413 · TalkETH Alumni spotlights GainForest's climate AI journey
The ETH Alumni interview traces GainForest's path from climate activism to XPRIZE-winning AI tools that support Indigenous and local communities.
ETH Alumni
Nov 15, 202414 · AwardGainForest is an XPRIZE Rainforest Winner
GainForest and partners are recognised through the XPRIZE Rainforest competition for technology that can reveal and protect biodiversity.
XPRIZE
Sep 1, 202415 · PressGainForest and ETH BiodivX in Amazonia
Swissnex reports on Switzerland–Amazonia collaboration, including the ETH BiodivX and GainForest work around biodiversity data and AI.
Swissnex Brazil
Jul 29, 202416 · PressFolha: international competition accelerates Amazon biodiversity research
Folha reports from the XPRIZE Rainforest finals in Manaus, where Tainá and field technologies help communities document Amazon biodiversity.
Folha de S.Paulo
Jun 13, 202417 · FeatureSSIR Brasil: the virtual guardian of forests
Stanford Social Innovation Review Brasil features Taina, GainForest's chatbot for safeguarding knowledge, rights, and biodiversity in Amazon communities.
SSIR Brasil
Jan 1, 202318 · FeatureGoethe-Institut: A Renaissance of Nature
Goethe-Institut interviews GainForest on how modern technologies can restore trust, support conservation, and value nature more fairly.
Goethe-Institut
Nov 3, 202219 · AwardBCG & Handelsblatt Vordenker:innen 2022
GainForest is featured among forward-thinking initiatives connecting food systems, climate, and nature-positive innovation.
BCG & Handelsblatt
May 23, 202220 · TalkWorld Economic Forum: A Wake-Up Call from Nature
At the 2022 Open Forum in Davos, the discussion connects deforestation, lifestyle choices, pandemic risk, and the urgent need to protect nature.
World Economic Forum
Apr 12, 202221 · PressParaguay announces partnership with GainForest
The Ministerio del Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible announces support to strengthen protected areas in the Chaco.
MADES Paraguay
Jan 10, 202222 · TalkTEDx: learning from nature's stewards
The TEDx talk introduces GainForest's early vision for cryptocurrency, community incentives, and reversing deforestation with forest stewards.
TEDx
Dec 12, 202123 · PressThe Edge Malaysia: climate tech and the way forward
The Edge Malaysia profiles climate-tech pathways and includes GainForest's AI approach to conservation finance and transparent forest protection.
The Edge Malaysia
Jun 15, 202124 · TalkSwiss Re: using artificial intelligence for hope
Swiss Re's Algorithms for Hope programme presents GainForest's AI and data-systems approach to monitoring ecosystems and financing restoration.
Swiss Re Institute
May 28, 201925 · PressMicrosoft: incentivizing sustainability with GainForest and the UN
Microsoft News highlights GainForest's early use of Azure, AI, blockchain, and UN collaboration to reward measurable forest protection in the Amazon.
Microsoft News
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