Adventure Collection | Lindblad Expeditions Wins Conde Nast Traveler 2013 World Savers Award

15 Aug Lindblad Expeditions Wins Conde Nast Traveler 2013 World Savers Award

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Kudos to Adventure Collection member Lindblad Expeditions for winning a 2013 World Savers Award from Condé Nast Traveler. Renowned for their extraordinary small ship voyages to some of the world’s most remote and fascinating places in alliance with National Geographic, Lindblad received the “Doing it All” award for their “Funding Conservation Research and Educating Passengers.”

Lindblad Expeditions World Savers
© Ralph Lee Hopkins

As partners in exploration, conservation, and education, Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic work collaboratively through the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic (LEX-NG) Fund to support initiatives around the world, with a special focus on the regions they explore. Raising more than $10 million in partnership with their guests since Lindblad began conservation efforts in 1997, initiatives supported by the LEX-NG Fund include wildlife-monitoring projects, such as tagging killer whales in the Antarctic; educational programs with local teachers and students in the Galápagos, and joining an international effort to help native sea birds in one of the largest rodent-eradication projects in the world, on South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

In its seventh year, applications for the coveted World Savers Awards were accepted in eight sectors and assessed in five areas: Education Programs, Environmental and Cultural Preservation, Health Initiatives, Poverty Relief, and Wildlife Conservation. Condé Nast Traveler bestowed awards on 14 top travel companies for exceptional achievement in social and environmental responsibility. The panel of judges included: Jeffrey Sachs (The Earth Institute), Laurie David (producer of An Inconvenient Truth_), Olivia Wilde (Artists for Peace and Justice), David Alport (UN Special Envoy and MDG Health Alliance), Luigi Cabrini (UNWTO’s Sustainable Development of Tourism), and Dorinda Elliott (_Condé Nast Traveler).

Lindblad Expeditions was also honored in 2011 with a World Savers Award for Wildlife Conservation.

For additional information on Lindblad Expeditions and the LEX-NG Fund visit http://www.expeditions.com/about-us/global-stewardship/ or call 1-800-EXPEDITION.