Taranaki Maunga is an honored ancestor to the Maori, something the New Zealand government has cemented with this designation.

A New Zealand mountain has been legally recognised as a person as part of an agreement between the government and Maori tribes.

Former Tw Arawhiti chief executive Lil Anderson has left the public service after 30 years, but continues working to strengthen Māori-Crown relations.

The mountain is the third natural feature in New Zealand to be conferred personhood. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Minister Potaka emphasized the Government’s commitment to economic growth and housing security through partnerships with ...

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

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.

The odd move makes Taranaki Maunga "a living and indivisible whole" with the full right and powers of a human.

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

Taranaki Maunga, formerly known as Mount Taranaki, is the latest natural feature in New Zealand to be granted legal ...