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Why was New Zealand Mountain granted personhood? Mount Taranaki granted legal rights as 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.
The New Zealand Herald10d
Taiming Zhang takes James Cook Hotel to tribunal after argument about Coke Zero v Coke No Sugar
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 Associated Press on MSN10d
New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
Greek Reporter10d
Mountain in New Zealand Gets Same Legal Rights as a Person
The second-highest mountain on New Zealand's North Island, Taranaki Maunga (Mountain), has been given the same legal rights as a human.
CNN11d
A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters
But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...