For those who thought 2025 was going to be just another year, New Zealand had other plans for its mountains. In a move that ...

New Zealand grants legal personhood to Mount Taranaki (Taranaki Maunga), recognizing its Māori status and promoting ...

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

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 mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person after a new law ...

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

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

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 ...

The park and its contents will be vested as a legal person, its peaks will be named Te Kāhui Tupua - so the park will ...

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