Taranaki Maunga — considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person under a new law.

This discovery not only adds a new ... Rotorua. The mapping project, which involved the Royal New Zealand Navy, utilised advanced multibeam echo sounder technology to chart the lake's physical ...

Scientists have made a major new discovery deep beneath a legendary lake in New Zealand. Lake Rotorua had already ... among other key features. These new maps prove for the first time that the ...

Public access will remain. New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognise natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest ...

Public access will remain. New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest ...