Do dolphins and other resident marine mammals have the legal standing to sue?
The need to give the Resident Marine Mammals legal standing [to sue] has been eliminated by the Rules on Environmental Procedures, which allows any Filipino citizen, as a steward of nature, to bring a suit to enforce our environmental laws. (Resident Marine Mammals of the Protected Seascape of Tañon Strait v. DOE Secretary Angelo Reyes, et al., G.R. No. 180771, April 21, 2015)