A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

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 ...

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

Taranaki Maunga and his companion peaks are to become a legal person to be called Te Kāhui Tupua when the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill becomes law on January 30. The area has become ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the third natural feature to be granted personhood in the country, following the Urewera Forest in 2014 and the Whanganui ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --The New Zealand government granted Mount Taranaki the same legal rights as a person after the country agreed to compensate its indigenous inhabitants for past colonization.