New Zealand has just granted legal personhood to a culturally and environmentally significant mountain. Here's what to know ...

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 ...

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move places the mountain back into the hands of the Māori tribe, who see the ...

Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...

Stripping an Indigenous place name and imposing a new one on maps, atlases, and our phones’ navigational systems is an act of ...

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

Tunnelling has begun at the $280 million Te Ara o Te Ata - Mt Messenger Bypass project in North Taranaki. A 110-tonne ...

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

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