F or the past 60 years, the conservation organization World Monuments Fund has campaigned to protect some of our most important international heritage sites. More than 700 culturally-significant ...

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 ...

In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that 14 landmarks would be lit up in honor of Ariel and Kfir, including One World Trade Center, the Empire State Plaza, and Niagara Falls.

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.

Five Endangered Cultural Monuments That Need Your Help. The World Monuments Fund has released its annual watch list of architectural and heritage sites desperately in need of preservation.

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 ...

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Every year, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) compiles a list of heritage sites it deems at risk, with the aim of building awareness and mobilizing action. These sites are usually Earth-bound, as you ...

Millions more will see the buildings and monuments lit red. “In a world increasingly marked by conflict, the persecution of Christians and the erosion of the universal right to religious freedom ...

Monument unveiled in Benicia to World War II veteran Harold Bray 03:34. BENICIA -- On Saturday morning, the city of Benicia dedicated a new monument to a living resident, a man who served in World ...

FILE - A hiker watches a waterfall at Lower Calf Creek Falls at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Escalante, Utah. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) ...

WASHINGTON — The first national World War I memorial in Washington, D.C., is unveiling its finishing centerpiece Friday, featuring a 60-foot-long bronze sculpture, "A Soldier's Journey." ...