Metal for the planet ?
Supporting Savage Lands: When Music is a Weapon for biodiversity protection In a world facing unprecedented environmental challenges, Savage Lands stands out as a unique project in order to protect biodiversity, blending music and ecology. Founded by Sylvain Demercastel and Dirk Verbeuren (drummer of Megadeth), Savage Lands is not just an innovative musical group but […]
Bands are stepping up!
A few weeks ago, the Savage Lands instagram page received a message from Schammasch… A band we honestly did not know so far. They actually knew us and wanted to be part of our initiative. Therefore, we read they were offering us to be well mentioned in their merch shop, on their official website. In […]
Growing tomorrow’s forest!
Just after participating in the Hellfest 2024 festival and raising funds thanks to the generosity of Metalheads, it’s time for action!
T.Shirts for the trees ?
Due to its ecological impact, buying a T-shirt should not be a trivial act. We asked ourselves the question of merchandising and decided to make it a concrete support. Savage Lands wants this to be a real participation in their actions on the ground. An act of membership, and a financial contribution to reforestation. But […]
Collaboration deal for biodiversity!
3 non profit sign a manifest for forests and wildlife : At last,for the first time, three active Costa Rican and US based NGO’s are signing a collaboration deal together. Consequently those NGO’s made a public statement and their representants, Andres Bermudes for The Clean Wave, Gerardo Bolanos for Costas Verdes and Sylvain Demercastel for […]
First land acquisition for Savage Lands
A first step Thanx to your support and our first royalties from signing with record label Season Of Mist, we created our first sanctuary! We hope to setup a new standard with this first land acquisition for our non profit. “With this first land acquisition, we successfully saved a piece of dry tropical forest in […]
Megadeth drummer, hires Metal stars to save the forest!
The first song from metal artists sepultura and megadeth joining savage lands and raising money for the protection of forests and biodiversity.
Thanx to the Metalheads!
The “My Forest” planting season
The “MY FOREST” concept we just launched shown very promising potential. We do believe it all can start in everyones property. Especially here in Costa Rica where the reward is almost immediate. Who doesn’t want to see monkeys and birds closer to their houses ? This is not only a good thing to do, but […]
My Forest “round 1”
July 2023, rainy season has started very late but we began our first reforestation operations of the year. Our new concept : MY FOREST allows us to bring a more public and visible action, starting on every landowner’s property who registered on the program. This is a very symbolic initiative that claims to bring the […]
MY FOREST
Bring the national park to your backyard ! Because we needed to gather as many goodwill as possible. And because everything starts with an idea then some people willing to be the change… We came up with the “My Forest” concept in our focus on reforestation. Instead of waiting for other to start a preservation […]
What happened in HELLFEST 2022
The true birth of Savage Lands We knew it was gonna be special. After two years of canceled editions, it had to be something. Not only we were finaly gonna meet again for real Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth) and I, no more zoom talks ! But we also had to gather with several artists that wrote […]
WHAT DO WE WANT ?
Actions, not words ! Because we know may people want to take action about the environment… Because we know about all the greenwashing attempts. Because we’ve always been dedicated to lost cause (Metal was kind of a lost cause in the 90’s when we started our bands…). We think we can act and inspire others. […]
One tree to save them all !
This is the story of a dead tree who will save hundreds ! When Dirk Verbeuren from “Megadeth” and Sylvain Demercastel decided to re-unite in a reforestation and preservation project, it had to keep one foot in their metal historical roots ! The idea to use Dirk’s network to find a partner that could build […]
