Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.

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 land are ...

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

The country's government recognised Mount Taranaki - now known by its Maori name, Taranaki Maunga - after striking a legal deal with local Maori tribes who have long viewed the breathtaking ...

Taranaki Maunga and his companion peaks are to become a legal person to be called Te Kāhui Tupua when the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill becomes law on January 30. The area has become ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the third natural feature to be granted personhood in the country, following the Urewera Forest in 2014 and the Whanganui ...