The tension between Arun Agrawal’s “environmentality” (2005), which sees conservation behavior as externally-driven, and Michael Cepek’s (2011) rebuttal that indigenous communities create self-determined perspectives on socioecological transformation will serve as a framework through which to view the burgeoning industry of eco-cultural tourism in the BIOAY. The language of Yanesha comuneros contrasted with narratives surrounding the emergence of protected areas will be considered with indigenous ideas of agency, authenticity, and communication with nonhuman beings amidst a changing biocultural context. By analyzing the status of local yuca varieties, participation in the organic coffee and tourism markets, and the manufacture of natural products and traditional handicrafts, Mays will discuss how a shift towards “permaculture” as a return to ancestral foodways and commercialization of indigenous identity represents strategic responses to globalization being employed by Yanesha in Tsachopen, Peru.