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 ...

The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Lu Huaiqian/Xinhua via Getty Mount Taranaki is officially a person.

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.

Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is considered an ancestral being by indigenous people. The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New ...

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 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 ...