Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori 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 ...

New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, has a warm glow lighting the snow peak, on June 12, 2011. (AP Photo/David Frampton, File) WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A mountain in ...

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 ...