Question & AnswerQ&A (DENR ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 2000-51)
The title is 'Guidelines and Principles in Determining Fees for Access to and Sustainable Use of Resources in Protected Areas'.
Sustainability is the overriding consideration in determining all types and rates of use of resources in protected areas.
No, subsistence use by indigenous peoples and tenured migrants is exempt from payment of user fees.
To set forth procedures that the DENR, through PAWB and PAMBs, shall follow in determining fees for access to and sustainable use of resources in protected areas, and to ensure that revenues accrue to the Integrated Protected Area Fund (IPAF) for management and protection of protected areas.
Carrying capacity refers to the ability of the natural or environmental resource to absorb stress without experiencing unacceptable instability and degradation.
Subsistence use, recreational use, extractive use, and commercial use.
Protected Area Entrance Fee, Facilities User Fee, Resource User Fee, Concession Fee, Development Fee, and Royalty.
These fees are primarily based on the willingness-to-pay estimates of visitors, but if such information is lacking, the cost-recovery principle is used.
PAMB approves all types of resource uses, conducts public consultations on proposed fees, formulates resolutions to enable fee collection, and collaborates with DENR in implementing guidelines and principles for fee determination.
Micro-scale (up to PHP 150,000), Cottage-scale (PHP 150,000 to 1.5 million), Small-scale (above PHP 1.5 million to 15 million), Medium-scale (above PHP 1.5 million to 60 million), and these are regularly updated according to Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) guidelines.
IPAF manages revenues generated from fees and royalties for the protection, maintenance, administration, management, and approved projects of protected areas.
Such projects must undergo an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as required by law before implementation.
They are groups identified by self-ascription or ascription by others having continuously lived as organized communities on communally bounded territory, with distinct cultural traits and claims of ownership since time immemorial.
Royalty is a fee paid based on the gross output value or gross sales from products derived from resources within a protected area.