2017Lindblad 50th anniversary

Launch of National Geographic Global

Explorers family program, developed with National

Geographic Education

Fleet of stand-up paddleboards added to tools for exploration

In addition to ongoing projects, LEX-NG Fund earmarks $50,000 in small grants for community projects

1966Seminal Grimwood-Snow Report published: recommending the founding of a National Park Service and the establishment of a protected marine zone; that all visitors should sleep aboard ships and go ashore with trained naturalist guides—the same policies that guide park visitation today

LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS A PARTNER IN GALÁPAGOS CONSERVATION | 1967-2017

1959Ecuador declares Galápagos

a National Park on the centennial of Darwin’s On

the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galápagos Islands

established

1967Lars-Eric Lindblad leads

the first international tourist expedition to the Galápagos Islands on the M/S Navarino

1961Galápagos Marine Biology Station established with support of UNESCO

1964Charles Darwin Research Station inaugurated

1968Juan Black and Jose

Villa, wardens of the new Galápagos

National Park Service arrive—with

salaries paid by Lindblad Travel

1970100-guest Romantica and 10-guest Golden Chachalote chartered—inaugurating the tradition of two different ways of experiencing the islands with Lindblad

1973The first modern survey

of the birds of Galápagos published, with fieldwork

sponsored by Lindblad

1974Lindblad Explorer debuts in Galápagos

1978Galápagos inscribed as first-ever UNESCO World Heritage site

1984UNESCO designates the Galápagos National Park a Biosphere Reserve

1997Galápagos Conservation Fund

(GCF) launches, coinciding with the arrival of M/V Polaris,

Lindblad’s first year-round ship

1998Galápagos Marine Reserve designated—with GCF grants for patrol boats, a biodiversity study, and a fisheries catch monitoring program

1999Teachers-on-Board launches,

reaching almost 1/3 of the island’s teachers

2000Our name becomes Lindblad Expeditions

Undersea specialists join our expedition team2001

Galápagos Marine Reserve included in the UNESCO World

Heritage site designation

2007Two new initiatives roll out, showing dual focus

on people and places: Seafood for Thought, supporting sustainable fisheries; and Artisan

Fund, supporting local communities

2009Charles Darwin

Foundation celebrates its 50th anniversary

2011Expedition Photography

program with National Geographic launches

2013Lindblad Expeditions

receives Doing it All Award from Condé Nast Traveler

2015Grosvenor Teacher Fellow

program expands to Galápagos

Bring-a-Book program launched with the Tomás de Berlanga School. To date guests have donated 1,328

books, over 1/3 of the total in the library.

National Geographic Endeavour carries seven mangrove finch eggs to the Charles Darwin Station, a example of

ongoing in-kind support in Galápagos

50CELEBRATING

YEARS

2006Newly discovered endemic moth Undulambia lindbladi named in honor of Sven Lindblad

Kids-on-Board program launched, with nearly 1,500 Galápagos kids visiting the ship and exploring Academy Bay with Lindblad naturalists

2002Isla Santiago declared pig free—a first for conservation of any large oceanic island—a project of Lindblad’s Adopt-an-Island pro-gram. With continuing support, pigs, goats and all introduced mammals eradicated from Isla Isabela and other large islands

2004Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Society form strategic alliance

48-guest Islander launches (rechristened National Geographic Islander in 2007)

2008Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Fund established. Since 1997 guests aboard our ships in Galápagos have donated $7.6 million to support conservation and other key development initiatives through-out the archipelago

Sven Lindblad receives Al Mérito de la Conservación Ecológico Award from the mayor of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galápagos

2010Guests start visiting the Tomás de Berlanga School, a local education project supported in part by the LEX-NG Fund

2016Ecuador creates a new marine sanctuary around the islands—one of the world’s largest—and the presidents of Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Colombia sign a historic accord for marine protection in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

Sven Lindblad accepts honorary Galápagos National Park Warden badge on behalf of his father

National Geographic Endeavour II launches

Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Fund grant awarded to Island Conservation for a pilot study of the Floreana Island Restoration Project, an ambitious species eradication and community program

Charles Darwin Foundation signs a historic 25-year agreement with Ecuador, extending and strengthening the partnership between the CDF, Galápagos National Park and the Ecuadorian government