The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
After the native forest Te Urewera and Whanganui River, New Zealand has now granted legal rights to a mountain. Mount ...
Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed ...
Yet colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer, Captain James Cook, spotted the peak from his ...
But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...
New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, now officially recognized as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted legal personhood, acknowledging ...
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.