National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS)
National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) refers to the classification and administration of all designated protected areas to maintain essential ecological processes and life-support systems, to preserve genetic diversity, to ensure sustainable use of resources found therein, and to maintain their natural conditions to the greatest extent possible. (Sec. 4(u), R.A. No. 7586 as amended by R.A. No. 11038)