Practice question
A nomadic ICC/IP proves traditional access to specified areas for subsistence activities within the applicable statutory ancestral-domain conditions. An opposing developer argues the areas are categorically excluded solely because the community no longer exclusively occupies every portion at all times. Which definition is relevant?
- Only fenced residential plots can ever be ancestral domain
- Nomadic communities are categorically excluded
- Traditional subsistence access is never relevant
- A developer’s survey automatically extinguishes every claim
- Section 3(a) expressly includes certain traditionally accessed areas and home ranges, so nonexclusive current occupation alone is not conclusive
Legal references
- RA 8371, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act, Chapters I–III: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8371_1997.html; Section 3(a).
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