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

Taranaki Maunga has a new name and now legal personhood, but there's a lot more fascinating detail in the new law than that.

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 ...

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

There are moments of grace and unity as Parliament completes the work of generations of Taranaki Māori, to admit the atrocities of the past and acknowledge the mountain as a living totem for the ...

The Crown agreed to formally give up ownership of Taranaki Maunga, instead sharing management of the national park with the region’s iwi and officially recognising the peaks as tupuna. The peaks ...

A mountain in New Zealand is now officially recognised as a human. Considered an ancestor by Indigenous people, the mountain ...

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 ...

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