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 ...

The park and its contents will be vested as a legal person, its peaks will be named Te Kāhui Tupua - so the park will ...

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

Taranaki Maunga, a mountain in New Zealand, has been recognized as a legal person, with rights and responsibilities like a human. This move redresses past injustices against Maori, acknowledging the ...

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

Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as ...

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

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 ...

The New Zealand government has granted Mount Taranaki personhood on Thursday, giving it the same legal rights as a person ...