New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, now known as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted the same legal rights as a person, recognizing ...

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

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

Taranaki Maunga is not the first natural feature to acquire individual status in New Zealand. Whanganui River and Te Urewera National Park are also in the elite league. Thanks to this achievement, ...

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, becoming the third natural feature in the ...

New Zealand’s Parliament has yesterday passed the Treaty of Waitangi settlement for Mount Taranaki, formally recognising its ...

Almost a decade of settlement negotiations between the Crown and Taranaki formally concluded today when Parliament voted ...

When is a mountain a person? - But how will Mount Taranaki use its new rights?

New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, now officially recognized as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted legal personhood, acknowledging its ancestral significance to the Māori people. The move aims to restore ...

Taranaki has not yet grasped the opportunity of the looming Te Matatini national kapa haka festival, says a South Taranaki ...

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years of negotiations. It means Taranaki Maunga [Mt Taranaki] will effectively ...