The second-highest mountain in New Zealand has been granted ‘personhood’ by the NZ parliament because it is regarded as the ...

The Grassroots Trust Rescue Helicopter has concluded another successful year, carrying out a total of 431 missions in 2024.

Tunnelling has begun at the $280 million Te Ara o Te Ata - Mt Messenger Bypass project in North Taranaki. A 110-tonne ...

New Zealand's Mt Taranaki, also known as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted the same legal rights as a person under a new law ...

The mountain is the third natural feature in New Zealand to be conferred personhood. Read more at straitstimes.com.

New Zealand on Thursday passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor.

A New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal rights as a person under a landmark settlement recognising its ...

Mount Taranaki receives legal rights as a person in groundbreaking agreement with Indigenous Māori, marking end to ...

The public will continue to have access to the mountain. The settlement came with an apology from the government for confiscating Mt Taranaki and over a million acres of land from local Māori in the ...

Before granting the individual status, the government also renamed the mountain from Mt Egerton to its origin title– “Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki" which means the highly regarded and treasured land of ...

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 ...

According to BBC, it means Taranaki Maunga [Mt Taranaki] will effectively own itself, with representatives of the local tribes, iwi, and government working together to manage it. The agreement ...