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 ...

along with 1.2 million acres of Taranaki land, following years of war between the Crown and Māori. Fishermen cast a line in the surf at the Mokau river mouth on the TaranakiWaikato boarder ...

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 ...