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Diagnostic Test - 02 Environmental Law in The Philippines For En. P. Board Licensure Examination
Diagnostic Test - 02 Environmental Law in The Philippines For En. P. Board Licensure Examination
1. Refers to a title formally recognizing the rights of possession and ownership of ICCs/IPs over their
ancestral domains identified and delineated in accordance with law.
2. Refers to a title formally recognizing the rights of ICCs/IPs over their ancestral land.
3. Refers to pre-conquest rights to lands and domains which, as far back memory reaches, have been held
under a claim of private ownership by ICCs/IPs, have never been public lands and are thus indisputably
presumed to have been held that way since before the Spanish conquest.
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8. The Indigenous Peoples Right Act of 1997.
9. Refers to a forest reservation essentially of national wilderness character which has been withdrawn
from settlement occupancy or any form of exploitation expect in conformity with approved
management plan and set aside as such exclusively to conserve the area or preserve the scenery, the
natural historic objects, wild animals and plants therein and to provide enjoyment of this features in
such areas.
10. It is relatively large area not materially altered by human activity where extractive resource uses are not
allowed and maintained to protect outstanding natural and scenic areas of national or international
significance for scientific, educational and recreational use.
11. It is an area set aside to allow the way of life of societies living on harmony with the environment to
adapt to modern technology at their pace.
12. These are areas of national significance which are characterized by the harmonious interaction of man
and land while providing opportunities for public enjoyment through the recreation and tourism within
the normal lifestyle and economic activity of these areas.
13. It is a relatively small area focused on protection of small features to protect or preserve nationally
significant natural features on account of their special interest or unique characteristics.
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16. Small – Scale Mining Law
18. An Act to Reserve to the Philippine legislature the Disposition of the Waters of the Public Domain for
the utilization and development of Hydraulic Power.
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