1 5 Appendices Transparency & Guiding Principles Climate Action Diversity, Inclusion & Well-Being Good Governance & Shareholder Alignment Community Contributions Responsible Capital Allocation Agnico Eagle: Detour Lake, Ontario The Detour Lake mine continues to expand its progressive reclamation program to include new areas of focus and research. In addition to the ongoing native plant revegetation research, tailings and test cover programs, and lichen and soil biological crust restoration projects, the team has included studies using mycorrhizal fungi to help improve tree seedling survival, as well as an expansion of the lichen transplant trials from greenhouse scale up to a field transplant trial. Efforts also continue to support the preservation of the Woodland Caribou by means of ongoing aerial surveys and telemetry collaring programs, and direct habitat restoration. The West Detour Project expansion is currently being planned to make sure Woodland Caribou’s calving areas are considered. Each year, with the help of trained ecologists, the Detour Lake mine conducts a seed collection program to harvest and process native seeds for most deciduous species on the mine site. These seeds are then added to a “seed bank” which is pulled from every year to plant and sprout saplings in a greenhouse before shipping them to site to plant as part of the site’s progressive reclamation program. The operation progressively reclaims completed rock storage facility areas, including earthworks and revegetation. The mine has also developed a 3D immersive virtual model to help visualize what the site will look like at closure. Wildlife at Detour Lake Mine, Ontario Sea Turtle Conservancy turtle release, Panama First Quantum: Cobre Panama, Panama Cobre Panama lies within the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor of the Panama Atlantic (“MBCPA”) and the Golfo de los Misquitos Forests Important Bird Area. The region supports very high biodiversity and is also home to the Santa Fe and Omar Torrijos National Parks. First Quantum, through its subsidiary Minera Panama, S.A. (“Minera Panama”), has committed to support three protected areas in the MBCPA. Following the creation of the Cobre Panama Foundation in 2019, Minera Panama and the Ministry for the Environment have now signed a long-term agreement to continue to support the protected areas around MBCPA. The areas are the Santa Fe National Park (72,636 hectares), Omar Torrijos National Park (25,275 hectares) and a protected area to be established in the District of Donoso and its coastal marine zone (more than 150,000 hectares). Minera Panama has committed to reforestation of 10,475 hectares (7,375 hectares outside the mine footprint and 3,100 hectares within the mine footprint). The company has also committed to implementing a number of species level management plans. These have been developed with the aim of addressing the management needs of individual species for which the protected areas and reforestation plans may not be sufficient. Each species action plan describes a portfolio of actions aimed at ensuring a net positive impact on species viability. Minera Panama is currently partnered with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute of Tropical Investigations (amphibian rescue), the Sea Turtle Conservancy (sea turtles), the Peregrine Fund (Harpy Eagles), Missouri Botanical Gardens (plant life), and Yaguara (jaguars). Biodiversity (continued)
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