The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Lu Huaiqian/Xinhua via Getty Mount Taranaki is officially a person.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.