Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move ...

Mt. Taranaki and its surrounding national park will enjoy all the rights and responsibilities of a person under a recent law ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

Te Matatini is in Ngāmotu at Pukekura Park's Bowl of Brooklands from February 25 and the throngs will be staying all over ...

Mount Taranaki has become the third natural feature in New Zealand to be bestowed with an individual status, after Te Urewera National Park and Whanganui River.

As told by New Zealand, rivers and forests are legitimate human ancestors. The country’s most recent conferral of personhood ...

As the government opens the floodgates today for project applications under its new Fast-Track Approvals Act, opposition to ...

A mountain in New Zealand is considered to be an ancestor by Indigenous people and has been recognized as a legal person. A new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. HPR ...

With OMV set to announce unexpectedly good flows from its Pohokura field and Genesis buying in more coal, the tide is turning back to investment in fossil fuels. Shane Jones tells Jonathan Milne that ...