1 2 3 4 5 (g) "Key Biodiversity Areas" or "KBAs" refer to sites of global significance for 6 (h) "NCIP' refers to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples; 7 8 9 (i) "National ICCA Registry" refers to the database maintained by jointly by the NCIP and the DENR containing qualitative, quantitative and spatial data on ICCAs as provided by ICCs/IPs themselves; 10 II 12 13 14 (j) "Protected Areas" refer to identified portions of land and water set aside by reason of their unique physical and biological significance, managed to enhance biological diversity and protected against destructive human exploitation and included as a component of the National Integrated Protected Area System (NIPAS); 15 16 (k) "Sustainable Traditional Indigenous Forest Resources Management Systems and Practices" or "STIFRMSP' refer to those systems and practices of ICCs/ 17 18 19 20 IPS formally recognized, registered and confirmed jointly by the DENR and the NCIP that were duly verified and found to be the sustainable forest management system and practice in the forest/watershed area within the ancestral domain/land of the concerned ICC/IP; 21 22 23 24 25 26 (I) "Sustainable Traditional Resource Rights" refer to the rights of ICCs/IPs to sustainably use, manage, protect and conserve a) land, air, water, and minerals; b) plants, animals and other organisms; c) collecting, fishing and hunting grounds; d) sacred sites; and e) other areas of economic, ceremonial and aesthetic value in accordance with their indigenous knowledge, beliefs, systems and practices; biodiversity conservation identified using globally standard criteria and thresholds, based on the needs of biodiversity requiring safeguards at the site scale. These criteria are based on the framework of vulnerability and irreplaceability widely used in systematic conservation planning; 27 28 29 CHAPTER II INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY CONSERVED AREAS 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 SEC. 5. Recognition of ICCAs.- ICCAs shall be respected as an exercise by the ICC/IP of their ancestral domain rights as well as of their sustainable traditional resource rights. ICCAs shall be accorded special protection and full recognition by all national and local government agencies. Except for ICCA documentation and mapping and biodiversity conservation-related activities involving the full participation of the concerned ICC/IP, the requirements for free and prior informed consent (FPIC) shall be strictly followed for all other allowable activities within ICCAs. 40 41 42 43 SEC. 6. Protection/Privileges of ICCAs. - ICCAs shall be closed to mining and other destructive forms of natural resource exploration, development and utilization. These activities shall likewise be not allowed outside the ICCAs if it will adversely impact the ICCA. 44 45 46 SEC. 7. Zones. - ICCs/IPs may establish zones within their ICCAs and provide for the management and use for such zones in accordance with their customary laws, traditions, customs or practices. 47 48 49 SEC. 8. ICCAs in Key Biodiversity Areas. - ICCAs within or encompassing KBAs shall be maintained, managed and sustainably developed in a manner consistent with conservation of the biodiversity found therein. As habitats or threatened 3