Just a quick heads up to say that Fieldview have released their first donation to our chosen charity Cool Earth. The Car Park raised a phenomenal £1800 which will be used by Cool Earth to protect endangered rainforest in the amazon and also to help local communities who live in the rainforest.

A big thankyou to everyone who came. Again we try and encourage people to use public transport, but the car park fee is a great way to raise money to offset the emissions created by those coming to the festival.

Some rainforest related facts for you:

- Rainforest destruction accounts for as many CO2 emissions as the USA - a staggering six billion tonnes each year.

- 1.6 billion people depend on rainforests for their welfare and livelihoods, with 350 million of them living in rainforest communities.

- Rainforests are made of carbon. When the forest is destroyed, this carbon is released as climate warming CO2.

- Rainforests are critical to global weather systems acting as the world’s thermostat

- The Amazon rainforest provides a 20% of the world’s fresh water as well as a fifth of the world’s oxygen.

- Rainforests are home to two-thirds of all living animal and plant species on the planet, with hundreds of millions of species still undiscovered.

- The forests are known as the “world’s pharmacy” because of their wealth of natural medicines and destroying them can destroy the chances of new breakthroughs in treatment.

Here is a google map of the rainforest that Fieldview protected in Peru with last years donation:

There is one more donation to be made. Keep your eyes peeled….