The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...
Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...
The volcano — known by its Māori name Taranaki Maunga — is no longer under the ownership of the New Zealand government as of Jan. 30, NBC News reported. It was granted all the legal rights ...
The New Zealand government has granted Mount Taranaki personhood on Thursday, giving it the same legal rights as a person ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...
A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, becoming the third natural feature in the country to be recognised as an individual. Mount Taranaki – now known as ...
Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws.