Concerns are mounting in New Zealand as the Cook Islands’ Prime Minister travels to China this week to sign agreements ...

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

The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square miles (1.9 million square kilometres) ...

Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed ...

The volcano ... via Getty Mount Taranaki is officially a person. The volcano — known by its Māori name Taranaki Maunga — is no longer under the ownership of the New Zealand government ...

A mountain in New ... Cook spotted the peak from his ship and named it Mount Egmont. In 1840, Māori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi — New ...

31 (UPI) --The New Zealand government granted Mount Taranaki the same legal rights ... the name British explorer James Cook gave it in the 18th century. New Zealand gave personhood to the natural ...

Mount Taranaki, now known by its Maori name Taranaki Maunga, in New Zealand has achieved a human status. While it may sound impossible, the dormant volcano has been granted legal rights and ...

The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand’s North Island at 8,261 ... In 1770, the British explorer, Captain James Cook, spotted the peak from his ship and named ...