Gaza, Ukraine, and the Moon included as new entries on the World Monuments Watch list for 2025
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The 2025 edition of theWorld Monuments Fund (WMF)'s biannual World Monuments Watch List has been announced with 25 new cultural sites considered to be under threat from a variety of different sources both natural and manmade.Leading the list was the notable and important inclusion of the "Historic Urban Fabric"of Gaza. Weve covered the difficult-to-account scale of destruction there since the beginning of the Israeli military incursion, which has to date destroyed at least 66% of all buildings (per the U.N.) and countless important heritage sites. Ukraines equally prolific war losses were also represented by the Kyiv Teachers House which was damaged by Russian missiles in October of 2022.Kyiv Teachers House, Ukraine. Photo: World Monuments FundThe Moon (yes) is another off-beat, if not peculiar, inclusion. The Fund says: "As a new era of space exploration dawns, international collaboration is required to protect the physical remnants of early Moon landings and preserve these...
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