Court told: Order govt to protect environment

A lawyer has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to order President Benigno Aquino 3rd to initiate a move to reforest all denuded mountains and regenerate obliterated mangroves.

In a petition for mandamus, lawyer Rodrigo Cruz pointed out that his petition was spurred by “the obvious neglect of our government, especially the executive and legislative departments, to act on the most important compulsion mandated by our Constitution that needed utmost priority because it affects our very existence as a nation and as human beings.”