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A Greener Festival plants Festival Wood in Scotland

By | Published on Wednesday 16 May 2012

A Greener Festival

The musical eco-champions at A Greener Festival have planted 300 trees to create Festival Wood in a corner of the Dundreggan Estate near Loch Ness in Scotland as part of an initiative to “give something back to the great outdoors that we love to enjoy”.

Festivals like T In The Park, Belladrum Tartan Heart, Bestival, Deer Shed, End Of The Road and Glastonbury have all contributed to the initiative, as have the Big Green Coach company which provides coach travel to various festivals and live events, and A Greener Festival’s Helen Wright, Claire O’Neill and Ben Challis recently made the trip to Scotland to plant the trees. Slotting in to an existing tree-planting programme run by Trees For Life, it’s hoped hundreds more trees can be planted on the site later this year thanks to additional support from affiliated festivals.

O’Neill told CMU: “Festival Wood is a positive reforestation initiative from A Greener Festival. It is not an offset scheme as such, but an opportunity for the festival community to give something back to the great outdoors that we love to enjoy. A festival legacy that will grow and grow and be there for future generations”.



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