"From the Andes to the Amazon, indigenous leaders arrive for COP30 climate summit", 10 November 2025

...After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying dozens of Indigenous leaders landed in Belem a day ahead of the start of the United Nations' COP30 climate summit. Their main goal was demanding a greater say in how their territories are managed, as climate change escalates and industries including mining, oil drilling and logging press deeper into the forests.

"We want to achieve more than just guaranteeing money or financing,” said Lucia Ixchiu, an Indigenous K'iche from Guatemala who was among the 60 or so passengers. “We want to reach a consensus where Indigenous territories are no longer sacrificed.”"It's a dream and a goal, but we know there are many interests at play,” she told Reuters from aboard the boat as it was midway through the Brazilian part of the Amazon....

Ixchiu said they chose to start the journey from the headwaters of rivers feeding into the Amazon to highlight the dangers mountain glaciers are suffering from climate change and extraction...The group stopped along the way in Peru, Colombia and Brazil to highlight challenges facing different Amazonian communities.

In Coca, Ecuador, they held a funeral for fossil fuels...