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

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 ...

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 ...