1 the intent and scope o f the activity, 2 understandable to the community; 3 (i) in a language and process Indigenous Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCA) 4 - the ancestral domains and lands , and parts thereof, that is identified, 5 protected, conserved, and sustainably used by ICCs/IPs pursuant to their 6 indigenous knowledge, systems, and practices, and in accordance with 7 customary laws and other effective means since time immemorial. 8 9 10 11 12 It is characterized by natural or with modified ecosystems, containing significant biodiversity values, ecological benefits and cultural and spiritual values; 13 critical areas (EGAs). 14 For purposes of this law, all ICCAs shall be considered as environmentally (j) Indigenous Cuiturai Communities/Indigenous Peopies 15 (ICCs/IPs) -g rou ps of people or homogenous societies identified by self­ 16 ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as 17 organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and 18 who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied, 19 possessed and utilized such territories, sharing common bonds of language, 20 customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, 21 through resistance to political, social and cultural inroads of colonization, 22 non-indigenous religions and cultures, became historically differentiated 23 from the majority of Filipinos. ICCs/IPs shall likewise include peoples who 24 are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the 25 populations which inhabited the country, at the time of conquest or 26 colonization, or at the time of inroads of non-indigenous religions and 27 cultures, or the establishment of present state boundaries, who retain some 28 or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions, but 29 who may have been displaced from their traditional domains or who may 30 have resettled outside their ancestral domains; 31 (k) Indigenous Knowiedge Systems and Practices (IKSPs) - the 32 systems, institutions, mechanisms, and technologies comprising a unique 33 body of knowledge evolved through time that embody patterns of 34 relationships between and among peoples and between peoples, their lands 35 and resource environment, including such spheres of relationships which