04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly promulgation and shall be appealable by certiorari only to the Supreme Court. (Emphasis supplied.) The Court of Appeals also stated that based on the records, the the land area being claimed by private respondents belongs to the B'laan indigenous cultural community since they have been in possession of, and have been occupying and cultivating the same since time immemorial, a fact has not been disputed by petitioner.[12] It was likewise declared by the appellate court that FLGLA No. 542 granted to petitioner violated Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 410[13] which states that all unappropriated agricultural lands forming part of the public domain are declared part of the ancestral lands of the indigenous cultural groups occupying the same, and these lands are further declared alienable and disposable, to be distributed exclusively among the members of the indigenous cultural group concerned. The Court finds no reason to depart from such finding by the appellate court, it being a settled rule that findings of fact of the Court of Appeals are binding and conclusive upon the Supreme Court absent any showing that such findings are not supported by the evidence on record.[14] WHEREFORE, the petition is hereby DENIED. SO ORDERED. Davide, Jr., C.J., (Chairman), Puno, Pardo, and Ynares-Santiago, JJ., concur. [1] Nicasio I. Alcantara, Petitioner vs. Commission on the Settlement of Land Problems, Secretary of Department of Environment and Natural Resources Antonio Cerilles, The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Rolando Paglangan, et al., Respondents. [2] Petition, Rollo, p. 9. [3] Rollo, pp. 93-95. [4] Republic Act No. 8371, "An Act to Recognize, Protect and Promote the Rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples, Creating a National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Establishing Implementing Mechanisms, Appropriating Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes (1997). [5] Petition, Rollo, pp. 20-28. [6] Comment, Id., at 137-139. [7] Id., at 146-147. [8] Id., at 150. [9] Amended Complaint-in-Intervention, p. 2. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/52426 4/6