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

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

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

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

The odd move makes Taranaki Maunga "a living and indivisible whole" with the full right and powers of a human.

Parliament grants Taranaki Maunga personhood, as law recognising injustices done to Maori people during colonisation is ...

The second-highest mountain on New Zealand's North Island, Taranaki Maunga (Mountain), has been given the same legal rights as a human.