Mt. Taranaki and its surrounding national park will enjoy all the rights and responsibilities of a person under a recent law ...
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island.
A New Zealand mountain has been granted legal rights similar to those of a person.This action came after years of negotiation ...
New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island.
The mountain is not the first of New Zealand's natural feature's to be granted legal personhood. In 2014, the Urewera native forest became the first to gain such status, followed by the Whanganui ...
A successful campaign by Whangaroa hapū to stop plans by an Australian mining giant to explore for minerals in a Far North ...
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