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The Institut des territoires (IDT) is a non-profit organization based in the Laurentians. Its mission is to “develop the concept of conservation”. Founded in 2016, this group aims to create and maintain multifunctional protected areas through conservation, monitoring and ecological restoration activities. To achieve this, it provides services in sustainable land use. Also, it develops innovative knowledge in environmental protection and sustainable regional development. Its team builds partnerships with public, private and hybrid actors. Such partnerships have already resulted in the development of a dozen protected areas in several localities in the Laurentians.

In 2023, the IDT established the Fonds Institut des territoires, with Philanthropie Laurentides. FGM was tasked with investing the Fund’s capital, so that it could benefit from the attractive yields of the FGM Investment Fund. The IDT also wished to align itself with the Foundation’s Responsible Investment Strategy. The Fonds Institut des territoires, established in perpetuity, will ensure the payment of ongoing costs of various natural and cultural protected areas under the organization’s responsibility.

“We were drawn to and motivated by the idea of permanently protecting the capital needed to ensure the integrity of the protected areas under the responsibility of the Institut des territoires, while extending the chain of positive ecological impact: from our consulting services, through the creation of protected areas, and including investments in initiatives with ESG components. For us, ‘No conservation without ethical endowment’ takes on its full meaning here.”
─ André Goulet, Co-Director of the Institut des territoires

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On the picture : Signing of the Fonds Institut des territoires agreement. Were present (from left to right): Marie-Claude Bonneville and Isabelle Marcoux, Directors of the Institut, Annie Reddy and André Marion, Directors of Philanthropie Laurentides.