Mount Taranaki - now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name - is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand and stands at 8,261 feet. Daily Express US.

Taranaki Maunga, known by New Zealand's non-Maori population as Mount Taranaki, has been recognized by the country's government as a legal person.This confers all the rights and responsibilities ...

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 — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

The iconic view of Taranaki Maunga reflected in the Pouākai Tarns and the flow of rivers from the mountain to the sea provided the inspiration for the design of the new East Stand at Stadium Taranaki ...

Raised in Taranaki, Vince always gravitated toward creativity. His early passion for painting evolved naturally into fashion design, a medium through which he could blend artistry, identity and ...

The new law offers extra protection for Mount Taranaki - now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name - and means it has all the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of a person.

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Maori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized. It fulfills an agreement of redress from the country’s government to ...

In 1770, Taranaki Maunga was renamed Mount Egmont by the British explorer James Cook, who spotted its peak from his ship. Then, in the 1860s, it was confiscated from the Maori people, along with ...

A mountain in New Zealand is now legally recognised as a person after being granted all the rights and responsibilities of a human by the government. The new law offers extra protection for Mount ...