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 ...

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

Mount Taranaki, a mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people, was recognized as a legal person after ...

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years ...

Radio New Zealand reported that the settlement acknowledges the British Crown’s 1865 confiscation of the mountain and nearly ...