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 Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws. A mountain in New Zealand is now legally ...

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Jan. 31 (UPI) --The New Zealand government granted Mount Taranaki the same legal rights as a person after the country agreed to compensate its indigenous inhabitants for past colonization.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

A Taranaki farmer — handed a $95,000 fine for redirecting a stream on his property — has pleaded not guilty to charges of failing to fix the damage. In 2022, Colin Boyd was found guilty of ...

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Mount Taranaki is considered sacred and an ancestor of the local Māori people A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law ...

The House: In a collective redress to the eight Taranaki Iwi, this week Parliament bestowed legal personhood on Taranaki Maunga under the name Te Kāhui Tupua. The personhood is not bestowed on the ...

Analysis: Peter Moeahu was still young in 1978, when the government first did a somewhat duplicitous deal to return Taranaki Maunga to Māori. “I recall my grandfather was chairman of the Taranaki ...