Hellfest 2024: the festival invests in the environmental NGO Savage Lands

Two years ago, when Sylvain Demercastel Lives in Costa Rica for 20 years, hears chainsaws cut down plots of forest at the edge of his garden. The trigger is there and the subject of biodiversity is tormented.

Far from the music scene, the singer contacts Andreas Kisser (guitarist of the metal band Sepultura) and asked him to participate in the NGO Savage Lands.

The initial objective: defend biodiversity threatened in the forest tropical go to Costa Rica.

Hellfest is committed to biodiversity

After two years of existence, the organization which brings together metal musicians and which produced three singles in committed words in favor of ecology, performs on the Hellfest stage. A few hours before the performance, Ben Barbaudannouncement :

The festival is committing one million euros for the next five years to finance the actions carried out by the NGO.

“More species per square kilometer”

Funding that complements the funds raised via listening, merchandising and the raffle.

These aim to act for the reforestationvia des organisations locales from Costa Rica. “There, it is more interesting to act, because there are more species per square kilometer,” according to the founder of the NGO based in the United States.

The association also wants to create sanctuaries and thus avoid land artificialization and provide land at capped prices to residents.

Save the Landes forest

From three monthsa branch française of the NGO opened. Its goal is to reforest burned plots in the Landes forests. “I would like to show a plot by saying that these protected hectares are protected thanks to Hellfest,” reports Benjamin Enault, deputy general director in France.

While waiting for these funds to be used, the group gave festival-goers an hour of concert this Friday on the Mainstage against a backdrop of preservation et backup of biodiversity.

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