By Kristine Sabillo New Zealand has formally granted a mountain legal personhood for the first time, recognizing not only its ...

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 — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is considered an ancestor by Indigenous people. The snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand’s North ...

The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Lu Huaiqian/Xinhua via Getty Mount Taranaki is officially a person.

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years of negotiations. It means Taranaki Maunga [Mt Taranaki] will ...

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 ...

New Zealand has officially recognized Mount Taranaki as a legal person. The 2,500m volcano on the west coast of the North Island now enjoys the same rights as a human being. The January 30 ...

The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Mount Taranaki is officially a person. The volcano — known by its Māori name Taranaki ...

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. A mountain in New Zealand is now legally ...