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Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand.

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 the country's government to ...

Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...

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 the country’s ...

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 ...

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 the country's government ...

It comes alongside a move to rename the mountain from Mt Egerton to its original Maori name of Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki (meaning the highly regarded and treasured lands of Taranaki), with the ...

A few years later, the Crown unfairly punished Māori by confiscating 1.2 million acres of Taranaki land, including the mountain. “The Crown’s breaches of the Treaty mean that immense and ...

Mount Taranaki is considered sacred and an ancestor of the local Māori people A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law ...