The research evaluated the use, conservation status and potential of natural resources in communities of the lower Ucayali basin, Jenaro Herrera district, Loreto region. Methodological instruments were used to collect qualitative information (surveys) and quantitative information (production data) through surveys in family units established in each of the communities of the study. Work was done with two communities: Nuevo Pumacahua with 11 surveys and Nuevo Aucayacu with 9 surveys. Conservation of resources is based on ancestral knowledge, using only what is sufficient and adequate to conserve the little that remains; the conservation of their forests and the use of lands without perennial vegetation such as the lowlands (planting vegetables) prevail. The potential of these communities lies in the existence of lakes near the community, where fish species can be protected; in the forests ...