UPDATE
We traveled the full length of the Amazon River to deliver a message to the world at the United Nations Climate Summit in Belém. Along the way, we shared our journey with millions, while press coverage extended our reach to 65 countries across 17 languages.

We are now bringing this message to audiences through the film Yaku Mama: Voices from the River. Your support will help this story continue to reach and inspire people to stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and protect the Amazon rainforest for the well-being of all.

ORIGINAL POST
We are sailing from the Andean glaciers of Ecuador to the mouth of the Amazon River at Belém, Brazil to deliver a message to the world at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP30).

Our flotilla is an act of resistance, hope, and empowerment — a coalition of peoples, communities, organizations, and movements uniting to travel 3,000 km down the entire Amazon River, arriving at COP30 with solutions and policy demands to mitigate climate change and its consequences.

We bring together the voices of the territories to influence global climate action. We sail to ensure that the demands of Indigenous Peoples, organizations, movements, and coalitions that defend their territories, nature, the Amazon, and their rights are heard in the COP30 negotiations.

We invite you to support us and immerse yourself in our historic 20+ day navigation through the Amazon basin with daily video updates as we meet with communities to highlight the challenges and solutions for the Amazon and its peoples.

As we travel, we will feed content to a remote editing team producing a film of the journey and our message to be debuted at COP30. More than just a film, this will be a call to reconnect with the source of life itself — with Yaku Mama, the Mother of Water.

The Amazon is our shared heart of the world, a pump for the global water cycle that shapes weather patterns and sustains the biosphere as we know it.

COP30 in Brazil opens a critical opportunity to rally the world for the Amazon rainforest. The results will be less about what governments and corporations agree on, and more about how the people of the world unite as guardians and stewards.

We sail through the Amazon to shift the center of decision-making from boardrooms to the territories, because true climate justice is born from the land, flows with its rivers, and is upheld by those who protect it.

But we are all on this journey together. The Amazon benefits all humanity, and the whole world has a responsibility to help protect it. Let’s make the most of this opportunity with the Yaku Mama Amazon Flotilla to inform, inspire, and engage more of the world in navigating through these times toward a better future.

We thank you for your time, energy, and support.

YAKU MAMA

Be part of a historic journey down the Amazon River to deliver a vital message for the world