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World Monuments Fund Puts Moon on List of At-Risk Sites

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For years, the World ‎ Fund has sought to ‎ and ‎ to ‎ cultural ‎ ‎ ‎ Machu Picchu in ‎, temples in Cambodia and the old city of Taiz in Yemen.
But this year’s ‎ of at-‎ ‎ goes much ‎: to the moon.
“The moon ‎ so far outside of our ‎,” said Bénédicte de Montlaur, the ‎’s ‎ and ‎. “But with humans ‎ more and more into space, we think it is the right time to get ourselves organized.”
Concerned that the new space ‎ could ‎ space ‎ and ‎ tourism in orbit and ‎, the ‎ named the moon as one of the 25 endangered ‎ on its 2025 World Monuments Watch. The other ‎ on the ‎, endangered by challenges ‎ ‎ change, tourism, conflict and ‎ ‎, ‎ Gaza, a ‎ ‎ building in Kyiv, and ‎ coastlines in Kenya and the United States.
With a growing number of ‎ people going to space and more governments ‎ human spaceflight, the ‎ warns that more than 90 important ‎ on the moon could be ‎. In ‎, some ‎ are worried about Tranquillity Base, the Apollo 11 landing ‎ where the astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped ‎ the moon’s ‎.
Protections for cultural heritage are typically decided by ‎ countries, which makes the ‎ of taking ‎ of important international ‎ like the moon more difficult.
Since 2020, the United States and 51 other countries have ‎ the Artemis Accords, a nonbinding agreement that ‎ the ‎ ‎ in ‎. The ‎ ‎ a ‎ to ‎ space heritage ‎ “robotic landing ‎, ‎, ‎ and other ‎ of ‎ on celestial bodies.” A ‎ ‎ United Nations agreement ‎ for the ‎ of lunar ‎, but there has been little progress in getting ‎ countries to ‎ it.
“The moon doesn’t belong to anybody,” de Montlaur said. “It is a ‎ of hope and the future.”
For almost 30 years, the World Monuments Fund has received nominations for its watch ‎ of ‎ ‎ from heritage ‎ ‎ the world. The ‎ is an educational and ‎ ‎ ‎ the nonprofit’s other ‎ to ‎ cultural heritage.
A division of the International Council on Monuments and Sites ‎ to aerospace heritage nominated the moon for the nonprofit watch ‎. Gai Jorayev, ‎ of that division, said that members wanted to see sustainable management because of the “sheer number of human artifacts on its ‎.”
Beyond the lunar orbiters and rangers ‎ across the moon’s ‎ that ‎ ‎ ‎, there are also artifacts of human culture. Apollo 11 astronauts left a ‎ ‎ to ‎ ‎, while a SpaceX rocket lifted a lander that carried 125 miniature ‎ by the artist Jeff Koons to the moon’s ‎ ‎ year.
And while many ‎ agree that lunar heritage needs better ‎, some ‎ questioned the World Monuments Fund’s ‎ that space heritage ‎ ‎ ‎.
“It is a little ‎ to say the ‎ moon needs to be protected from tourism and science,” said Michelle Hanlon, a space ‎ who helped ‎ a nonprofit called For All Moonkind to ‎ for an international ‎ protecting lunar heritage.
She said that many ‎ ‎ ‎ are headed to ‎ far from previous landings, but that ‎ ‎ might ‎ historic ‎ without better ‎ in ‎. Hanlon ‎ that another danger could come from ‎ ‎ ‎ into the lunar ‎. “The moon doesn’t have an atmosphere that will ‎ them up,” she said.
At the World Monuments Fund, ‎ ‎ a future where space tourism is more ‎. “It is not so far away that there is going to be ‎ visits to the moon,” said Jonathan Bell, vice ‎ of programs. “We see putting the moon on the watch ‎ as a wonderful ‎ to ‎ for the need and ‎ of ‎.
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