Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is considered an ancestor by Indigenous people. The snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand’s North ...

New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, now known as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted the same legal rights as a person, recognizing ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person after a new law ...

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 land are ...

hiking and snow sports. The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Maori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized. It fulfills an agreement of redress from ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the second highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island.

FILE – New Zealand’s Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, has a warm glow lighting the snow peak, June 12, 2011. (AP Photo/David Frampton, File) The legal recognition acknowledges the ...

hiking and snow sports. The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized. It fulfills an agreement of redress from ...

Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.