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Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Oct: Times of India. The Goa government has dropped an opportunity to get the state's stretch of the Western Ghats inscribed as a world heritage site. Thirty-nine serial sites in the ghats passing through four states are included in India's nomination dossier submitted last year to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris. No site in Goa is mentioned. Greens say Goa's case can still be presented. The deadline is January 2012. Full text, 693 words, at http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-slips-up-on-heritage-ta g-for-Western-Ghats/articleshow/10408156.cms Ask your friends to alert their contacts to sign the UNESCO Petition; broadcast the message on Facebook, Twitter and your mailing lists by directing all to http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php