According to Dionisio, the area is just a portion of the ancestral land that belongs to the Aeta communities of Yangil and Banawen in San Felipe, Zambales that had stood barren for some 30 years.

Despite its proximity to major cities, Zambales remains the bastion of the Aeta. They were the earliest Filipinos to migrate to the archipelago more than 10,000 years ago – thousands of years ...