National Park Bauaha Shonen-located in the southeastern Amazonian Peru, created in 1996 to protect one of the few regions whose territory remains untouched intense life of modern human society. It includes areas where retained a very high level of biological diversity of fauna and flora, in some places to record levels.

The park protects a large number of species of plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and fish, including many rare species that are threatened with extinction. Many species occurring within the park are endemic in Peru, including two types of parrots and at least 28 for the new types of butterflies.

In these forests you can see the marsh deer, maned wolf, a unique species of eagle - harpy eagle, giant anteater, anaconda, giant armadillo, giant river otters, black caiman, the spectacled bear, jaguar and several species of monkeys. In 1992, the ichthyological research team found 93 species of fish in six different reservoirs, are only at the bottom of the valley park Bauaha-Shonen.

The objective of the park is to protect and preserve the greater number of species of local fauna and flora in the lower valley of the Amazon and in the tropical foothills of the individual elevations. The park also protects a number of areas, which grow wild varieties of pineapple and guava.

In 2012, during a research expedition in the park, which was attended by 15 researchers Wildlife Conservation Society, have been identified 13 species of birds, previously undocumented, including black-and-white hawk-eagle, tricolor phalarope Wilson and Ash cuckoo two species of bats - long-eared bat Nikiforov and three-colored bat, as well as 233 species of butterflies and moths.

Despite the support of Wildlife Conservation Society, National Park Bauaha-Shonen remains vulnerable due to various threats. Today, the most pressing concern is the illegal gold mining and logging, excessive extraction of natural resources such as game, fish, fruit and palm leaves, as well as paving the road Cusco - Puerto Maldonado.