Advocacy
World Monuments Fund Watch List
In June, the World Monuments Fund announced its "Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites." This year's list highlights three critical manmade threats:political conflict, unchecked urban and industrial development, and, for the first time, global climate change. Announced every two years, the list acts as a call to action, drawing international public attention to threatened cultural-heritage sites across the globe.
Among those sites in the latter category are: Herschel Island in Canada; Sonargaon-Panam City in Bangladesh; and New Orleans in Louisiana. Numerous sites in Iraq are also among the grave threats to cultural heritage due to conflict, and Peru's Machu Picchu is endangered because of unchecked and unmanaged tourism.
For more than forty years, the World Monuments Fund has helped to save hundreds of endangered architectural and cultural sites around the world.