A team of researchers at the University of Canterbury has observed invasive plants spreading through New Zealand's ...

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Around the world: Taranaki Maunga, a mountain in New Zealand, has been granted legal personhood, Rwanda initiates Heritage Forest project safeguarding ancient native trees, Kimberley Aboriginal ...

New Zealand has formally granted a mountain legal personhood for the first time, recognizing not only its importance to Māori tribes but also paving the way for its future environmental ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Jan. 30 after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

New Zealand on Thursday passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor. This ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted ...