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From Israel’s Iron Beam to the Chinese-developed Silent Hunter, directed-energy weapons are part of anti-drone strategies.
(Photo Credit: Accor / World Monuments Fund) Accor and WMF hope to increase the road network’s sustainable management, strengthen local and transnational cooperation and support the communities the ...
World Heritage Day, also known as the International Day for Monuments and Sites (IDMS), is celebrated on April 18 every year. Its goal is to encourage individuals and local communities to cherish ...
Lunar pie: Editorial on World Monuments Fund's concern for Moon’s preservation World Monuments Fund's concern for the Moon’s preservation as a cultural site is intriguing; perhaps even laudable. It ...
For 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 ...
Every two years, the World Monuments Fund (WMF), a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the ...
Hyderabad: At a time when the Telangana govt is planning to conserve heritage structures along the Musi river and transform them into tourist attractions, the New York-based World Monuments Fund ...
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 ...
Chronic underfunding. These are just a few of the reasons the World Monuments Fund chose the 25 world monuments in its 2025 World Monuments Watch —they all face key threats to their preservation. The ...
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.