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

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

The New Zealand government has granted Mount Taranaki personhood on Thursday, giving it the same legal rights as a person ...

New Zealand passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor on Thursday.

Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as ...

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 ...

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.

A New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal rights as a person under a landmark settlement recognising its ...

New Zealand's Mt Taranaki, also known as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted the same legal rights as a person under a new law ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognised as a legal person on Thursday after a ...

Mount Taranaki, a mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people, was recognized as a legal person after ...

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years ...