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

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move ...

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

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

There are moments of grace and unity as Parliament completes the work of generations of Taranaki Māori, to admit the ...

New Zealand grants legal personhood to Mount Taranaki (Taranaki Maunga), recognizing its Māori status and promoting ...

It fulfills an agreement of redress from the country's government to Indigenous people for harms perpetrated against the land since. The law passed Thursday gives Taranaki Maunga all the rights ...

Hundreds of Māori gathered outside New Zealand's parliament to celebrate the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill being signed into law. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily ...

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 ...