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. A mountain in New Zealand is now legally ...

It could be the climate: New Zealand’s Nelson Tasman region, on the northern coast of the South Island, is one of the sunniest places in the country, receiving nearly 2,400 hours of sunshine per ...

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 ...