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A coastal community and a local environmental NGO file a Petition for Writ of Kalikasan before the Supreme Court challenging a private company’s planned dredging project in a mangrove estuary. They allege grave and imminent threats to the mangrove ecosystem, local fisheries, and community health due to sediment plumes, turbidity, and potential toxic discharges, and argue that the Environmental Impact Assessment was rushed and inadequately reviewed. The petition seeks immediate protective relief and an order compelling agencies to enforce environmental safeguards and to halt the project until proper review is completed. (a) Identify the controlling remedy and the doctrinal basis for granting relief. (b) Distinguish this remedy from the Writ of Amparo and the Writ of Habeas Corpus in this scenario. (c) If the remedy is granted, what forms of relief may the court provide to protect the petitioners’ environmental and health rights?