Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has sent a wildfire aviation specialist to Australia to run the aerial attack on several large ...

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.

Studies have shown that New Zealand supermarkets were the most expensive for kitchen staples compared with the UK, Ireland ...

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years ...

New Zealand’s legal recognition of natural features as persons sets a precedent for conservation worldwide. Similar initiatives have taken place globally, including the recognition of the Ganges ...

Public access will remain. New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest ...