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| WMF and
Climate Change on Earth Day |
WMF's 2008 Watch List cited, for the first time,
climate change as a serious threat to cultural heritage sites.
On this Earth Day, a time when people around the world are thinking
about how to protect our planet, we at WMF are reminded once again
of the dangers of climate change to the world's most treasured
places. Our commitment to saving sites facing this threat is
already producing results: we have begun work on the Gereza Fort at Kilwa
in Tanzania (pictured above), a 2008 Watch site, built by
the Portuguese in 1505 and threatened by coastal erosion. We
have teamed up with the Tanzanian Ministry of Culture to restore the
mangrove forests along the coast to help stem the erosion.
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WMF's Largest Cambodian Project
Yet |
WMF has just launched its largest project yet at
Angkor, Cambodia: the restoration of the gallery housing the
celebrated 12th-century Churning of the Sea of Milk
bas-relief. In early April, we erected a large gantry crane
(pictured above) on site to begin removing the stones of the roof
for cleaning and conservation, unclogging the ancient drainage
system that had kept the frieze - one of the most important cultural
treasures of Southeast Asia - safe for centuries. Our work on
the gallery is critical to safeguarding its future and we need your
help.
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| Restoring Chuguji's Imperial
Convent |
 On Thursday,
April 10, WMF and the Tiffany & Co. Foundation held a breakfast
at Tiffany's for Yasuhiro Oka, whose traditional crafts studio - Oka
Bokkodo Company in Kyoto, one of the premier painting and paper
conservation studios in Japan - is working with us to restore
the Chuguji Imperial Buddhist Convent in Nara, Japan, using delicate
traditional crafts techniques. Thought
to be more than 1300 years old, Chuguji is the oldest of the 13
surviving Imperial Japanese Buddhist Convents and is our most complicated and ambitious Japanese convent
project to date.
(Photo courtesy of Oka Bokkodo Co., Ltd., Kyoto.)
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| Ladakh
Trip |
A Journey to the Roof of the
World
Ladakh, India: July 7-16,
2008
This summer, join the World Monuments
Fund on an adventure through the ancient kingdom of Ladakh, India,
to explore the history of Buddhist art and architecture high in the
Himalayas. For more information, visit www.wmf.org/travel or call
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