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 preserving almost 350 sites around the globe.

Amidst an increase in space activity, the World Monuments Fund added the Moon to its 2025 Watch List, which highlights endangered heritage sites around the world—and, for the first time, beyond. An Otherworldy First for the WMF Watch List The World Monuments Fund (WMF) added the Moon to its Watch List,

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.

Every two years, the nonprofit World Monuments Fund releases a list of cultural heritage sites it deems most at risk of disappearing because of threats like war or climate change. The line-up of landmarks usually includes historic temples,

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has just announced its biennial list of 25 cultural heritage sites that are under threat – and for the first time ever, it’s gone lunar. The preservation organization’s list,

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has added the moon to its list of 25 threatened heritage sites, citing risks from upcoming commercial and government-funded lunar missions. Concerns include potential damage to historic artifacts,

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The Moon has been added to the World Monuments Watch (WMW) list of 25 endangered sites for 2025, alongside Gaza’s cultural heritage and terracotta sculptures in a Portuguese monastery. View on euronew