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

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

Colonisers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took the mountain from the tribes after British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from his ship and renamed it Mount Egmont. In 1840 ...

After the native forest Te Urewera and Whanganui River, New Zealand has now granted legal rights to a mountain. Mount ...

A mountain in New Zealand is now legally recognised as a person after being granted all the rights and responsibilities of a ...

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

New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, now officially recognized as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted legal personhood, acknowledging its ancestral significance to the Māori people. The move aims to restore ...

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand was recognised as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

The mountain is considered an ancestor by the indigenous Maori people. The country's parliament unanimously passed the decision, making it the third natural feature in New Zealand to be granted such ...

Air New Zealand has announced the appointment of Nathan McGraw as chief safety and risk officer, and Scott Wilkinson as chief commercial officer. McGraw, who has more than 30 years of experience in ...