Embracing Nature's Majesty Yosemite National Park, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, is famed for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, and giant sequoia trees. Towering ...

Wellington, New Zealand ... peaks and land, "incorporating all their physical and metaphysical elements." A newly created entity will be "the face and voice" of the mountain, the law says ...

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

The Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill was passed into law by New Zealand's parliament on Thursday - giving the mountain a legal name and protecting its surrounding peaks and land.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand ... peaks and land, “incorporating all their physical and metaphysical elements.” A newly created entity will be “the face and voice” of the mountain, the law ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered ... feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered ... which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand ... peaks and land, “incorporating all their physical and metaphysical elements.” A newly created entity will be “the face and voice” of the mountain, the law ...

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