Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.
It will no longer be referred to as Egmont, the name British explorer James Cook gave it in the 18th century. New Zealand gave personhood to the natural features of the Te Urewera scared forest on ...
The Cook Islands is in free association with New Zealand, which means its people ... Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape said last month that the US withdrawing from the climate ...
However, the distinction apparently mattered so much to Taiming Zhang that he attempted to take James Cook Hotel to the ... if Zhang had been living in New Zealand it would have made him pay ...
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...