World Monuments Fund Cultivating Resilience Program

Today, many places, such as farmlands and parks, are threatened by damage from droughts, flooding, and, most importantly, climate change caused by global warming driven by carbon dioxide humans have created. And that’s why a group called the World Monuments Fund is making significant efforts trying to protect them.

The World Monuments Fund is mainly about cultural heritage sites. They see the problem that these places are being damaged. So they created a program called Cultivating Resilience to help protect them and improve them. “ Climate change is one of the most urgent threats facing cultural heritage today,” the group says on its website. “As climate-related threats intensify, green heritage spaces face mounting pressures,” the group says. A director called Meredith Wiggins told TIME For Kids that WMF got 55 applications from 25 countries. Seven sites were chosen for assistance. Some of the sites were about agriculture.

For instance, the farmland in Peru, a country that is in South America. Another site that World Monument Fund is trying to help is Mexico City in Mexico. There, World Monument Fund is trying to focus on places called chinampas. Chinampas are islands in Mexico City’s wetlands. They are mainly used for farming. World Monument Fund wants to help protect the chinampas from droughts, floods and climate change.

The Cultivating Resilience program also helps places that are not agricultural. An example is a forest in a country called Nigeria. Nigeria is a country in Africa. World Monuments Fund is also working with New York City, and they are trying to help make Central Park cleaner. A team is also trying to keep the park clean.