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

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.

Image caption, The Tūhoe people live in the rainforests of New Zealand’s North Island. Only an estimated 30% of the Tūhoe people still live in their original forest land. The government of New ...