New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
Public Radio International7h
New discoveries shed light on some of the earliest humans to settle in Taiwan
A combination of ancient knowledge and modern research techniques may be closing the gap between who some of the earliest ...
The strange, inclusive world of mountain personhood
As told by New Zealand, rivers and forests are legitimate human ancestors. The country’s most recent conferral of personhood ...
Los Angeles Times3d
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...
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New Zealand's Mount Taranaki is now legally a person
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 ...