2012 World Monuments Watch

Tierradentro Archaeological Park in Cauca Department, Colombia features underground tombs dating from 6th to 9th centuries AD.

Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Guatemala, it covers approximately 3 square kilometres (1.2 sq mi) and contains a wealth of sculpture, including the tallest stone monuments ever erected in the New World.

The Sans-Souci Palace was the royal residence of King Henri Christophe of Haiti. Its name translated from French means "carefree."

The Nazca Lines, Peru are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.

Haydarpasa train station, Turkey, İstanbul, was rebuilt 1906-1909 in a neo-classical style on land reclaimed from the sea.

Birmingham Central Library, built 1969-1973 and designed by John Madin. It is an example of UK Brutalist architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s.

Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Fifth Avenue as being the most expensive street in the world.

Walpi, Arizona, US, circa 1877, photographed by John K. Hillers. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited villages in the United States.

Around 1,600 people live on Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam in four fishing villages made up of floating houses and are sustained through fishing and marine farming.

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) that calls international attention to cultural heritage around the world that is threatened by neglect, vandalism, conflict, or disaster.^[1]

Selection process

Every two years, it publishes a select list known as the Watch List of Endangered Sites that are in urgent need of preservation funding and protection. The sites are nominated by governments, conservation professionals, site caretakers, non-government organizations (NGOs), concerned individuals, and others working in the field.^[1] An independent panel of international experts then select 100 candidates from these entries to be part of the Watch List, based on the significance of the sites, the urgency of the threat, and the viability of both advocacy and conservation solutions.^[1] For the succeeding two-year period until a new Watch List is published, these 100 sites can avail grants and funds from the WMF, as well as from other foundations, private donors, and corporations by capitalizing on the publicity and attention gained from the inclusion on the Watch List.^[2]

2012 Watch List

The 2012 Watch List was published on 5 October 2011.^[3]

Statistics by country/territory

The following countries/territories have multiple sites entered on the 2012 Watch List, listed by the number of sites:

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