The Berawans do not have any poof of their NCR claims to the land at Mulu. Many of the Berawans are appreciative of the spin-off ventures that the development of the Mulu National Park has brought. Cases in point are the tour companies and lodging houses - small enterprises operated by the Berawans themselves. The land at stake, howeve are the lands outside the national park which the Berawans have not agreed to release -and for good reasons too. They need the land to hunt, fish, woship, collect building mateials and a host of other resources.
Land is for their economic survival.
They also need the land to maintain their ancestral ties and their future generations. Without land, their lives will be uncertain, their culture destroyed. Thus their NCR land rights show that they have a history and an identity. We trace our heritage back to the pre-Brooke era when the Baram area was ruled by the Sultan of Brunei.