New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

Taranaki Maunga, formerly known as Mount Taranaki, is the latest natural feature in New Zealand to be granted legal ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

land grabs and cultural erasure over more than 100 years at the hands of colonial settlers. There are currently 978,246 Maori in New Zealand, constituting around 19 percent of the country’s ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

British and Polynesian influences course through picturesque New Zealand, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Australia. Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders ...

At the same time as its announcement that all of Hamas would be blacklisted as terrorist entity, New Zealand also announced sanctions on about a dozen "extremist Israeli settlers" accused of ...

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, becoming the third natural feature in the ...

It’s often a day marked by spirited politics and at times boisterous protest. But Thursday’s anniversary of New Zealand’s ...

to the earliest Polynesian settlers, and connects them to the natural environment. New Zealand has a lot of old, dense native bush, and its ferns, vines, palms, fungi, berries, fruit, and seeds ...