The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

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

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, becoming the third natural feature in the ...

The mountain is considered an ancestor by the indigenous Maori people. The country's parliament unanimously passed the decision, making it the third natural feature in New Zealand to be granted such ...

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

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the second highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island.

Mount Tasman, the second-highest mountain in New Zealand, is located in the Southern Alps on the South Island, just north of ...

Radio New Zealand reported that the settlement acknowledges the British Crown’s 1865 confiscation of the mountain and nearly ...

A mountain in New Zealand has been given the same legal rights as a human being in a unanimous parliamentary vote. Taranaki Mounga (or maunga), formerly named Mount Egmont by European settlers, is the ...

The first successful ascent of Everest was made on May 29, 1953, by New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay. Despite its awe-inspiring views, the mountain has earned the nickname ...

Wearing a baselayer made of technical, moisture-wicking material is pretty much a must, whatever you’re doing in the ...