Sec. 3. - Coverage. This Order shall cover and apply to all ICCs/IPs with traditional indigenous forest resources management systems and practices within their ancestral domains/lands, whether it be individual, family, clan and communal. Sec. 4. - Definition of Terms. The following terms, as used in this Order, shall be understood and defined as follows: a. Ancestral Domain Management Block/Unit - refers to indigenous cultural communities/area or part thereof, which has the same natural, socio-economic and political conditions that are being governed by one traditional leadership system and practicing a single type of traditional and indigenous forest resources management. b.Indigenous Cultural Communities /Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs)refer to a group of people or homogenous societies identified by selfascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived a s organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized such territories, sharing common bonds of language, customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, through resistance to political, social and cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenous religions and cultures, became historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. ICCs/IPs shall likewise include peoples who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, at the time of conquest or colonization, or at the time of inroads of nonindigenous religions and cultures, or the establishment of present state boundaries, who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains. c. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSP) - refer to systems, institutions, mechanisms and technologies comprising a unique body of knowledge evolved through time that embody patterns of relationships between and among peoples, their lands and resource environment, including such spheres of relationships which may cover social, political, cultural, economic, religious spheres, and which are the direct outcome of the indigenous peoples' responses to certain needs consisting of adaptive mechanisms which have allowed indigenous peoples to survive and thrive within their given socio-cultural and biophysical conditions. d. Customary laws - refer to a body of written and/or unwritten rules, usages, customs and practices traditionally and continually recognized, accepted and observed by respective ICCs/IPs. Application of these customary laws shall extend to the management of forest and forest resources, the manner of selection in cutting, utilization and harvesting of mature/over-matureldefective trees and other forest resources, the pruning of branches of trees for traditional fuelwood and any other similar practices. Said customary laws shall likewise cover the sanctions/penalties for various prohibited acts t h ~ are t impose4 py the elders/ leaders or council of elders/ leaders.