Manila, June 16 -- The local government unit (LGU) here, along with some residents, including children, has attained relief over a court's issuance of a temporary restraining order over the Shilan Communal Forest in this municipality.

Reelected town councilor Bartolome Baldas, the municipal legal officer when the case was filed in 2020, said "we had to initiate the case so that we can protect it, being a source of our water, and it is just one of the remaining green patches in La Trinidad."

The case was filed by the LGU after it found out that the defendants had bulldozed portions of the communal forest without any permit from the authorities, which threatened to affect the remaining green patches.

Baldas said the court issued a Tempor...