Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move ...
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...
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 government has granted Mount Taranaki personhood on Thursday, giving it the same legal rights as a person after the country agreed to compensate its indigenous inhabitants for past ...
The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Lu Huaiqian/Xinhua via Getty Mount Taranaki ... of the New Zealand government ...
Wellington, New Zealand - A mountain in New Zealand considered ... it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name ...
Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws. A mountain in New Zealand is now legally ...