Taranaki Maunga has a new name and now legal personhood, but there's a lot more fascinating detail in the new law than that.

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 became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous ...

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

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

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

Mt Taranaki will be jointly managed by iwi and the Crown and the name Mt Egmont will be consigned to history.

Mount Taranaki has become the third natural feature in New Zealand to be bestowed with an individual status, after Te Urewera National Park and Whanganui River.

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

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 ...

this week Parliament bestowed legal personhood on Taranaki Maunga under the name Te Kāhui Tupua. The personhood is not bestowed on the central maunga in isolation, but on "a living and ...