Archaeology & History In a First, the Moon Is Named an Endangered Site by World Monuments Fund. The nonprofit's 2025 World Monuments Watch list also includes sites imperiled by war and climate change.

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

T he World Monuments Fund (WMF) included the Moon in its 2025 list of 25 at-risk cultural heritage sites for the first time, emphasizing the need for preservation efforts due to at least 90 ...

At the World Monuments Fund, staffers expect a future where space tourism is more common. “It is not so far away that there is going to be recreational visits to the moon,” said Jonathan Bell ...

The World Monuments Fund has announced its 2025 Watch – here are some of the endangered sites on the list. Every two years, the World Monuments Fund creates a list of 25 monuments of global ...

For the first time, a location beyond Earth has been listed as vulnerable by the World Monuments Fund, an international nonprofit that every two years highlights 25 heritage sites at risk.. The ...

The World Monuments Fund has been publishing its World Monuments Watch every two years since 1996 to build awareness and concern for endangered places. To-date, it’s funded $120 million towards ...

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) regularly publishes a watchlist of locations likely to be endangered and has named 25 new additions that are at risk, ...

The World Monuments Fund, an independent nonprofit dedicated to safeguarding cultural heritage, is pouring $15 million into a new climate initiative. Announced yesterday (Jan. 17) with several ...

The World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) 2025 Watch list includes 25 sites, ranging from historic structures in Gaza to the Moon—marking the first time the initiative has highlighted a site in outer ...

The World Monuments Fund has announced its 2025 Watch – here are some of the endangered sites on the list. Every two years, the World Monuments Fund creates a list of 25 monuments of global ...