New Zealand grants personhood to sacred mountain

Why was New Zealand Mountain granted personhood? Mount Taranaki granted legal rights as a person
Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.
Mount Taranaki in New Zealand Is Legally Declared a Person
The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said
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. It fulfills an agreement of redress from the country's government to Indigenous people for harms perpetrated against the land since.
New Zealand grants personhood to sacred mountain in historic settlement
Mount Taranaki receives legal rights as a person in groundbreaking agreement with Indigenous Māori, marking end to decades-old land dispute.
New Zealand Grants Legal Personhood to Mount Taranaki – Here’s Why It Matters
New Zealand grants legal personhood to Mount Taranaki (Taranaki Maunga), recognizing its Māori status and promoting conservation, sustainable tourism & Indigenous rights.
New Zealand grants legal personhood to Mount Taranaki
The New Zealand government has granted Mount Taranaki personhood on Thursday, giving it the same legal rights as a person after the country agreed to compensate its indigenous inhabitants for past colonization.
This New Zealand Mountain Granted Legal Rights Similar To A Human
New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, now known as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted the same legal rights as a person, recognizing its spiritual significance to the indigenous Maori people.
New Zealand grants sacred mountain personhood in landmark law
New Zealand 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 on Thursday.
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 New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized.
New Zealand mountain gets same legal rights as a person
Mount Taranaki is considered sacred and an ancestor of the local Māori people A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain ...
Why Does New Zealand's Mount Taranaki Have Human Rights
Mount Taranaki has become the third natural feature in New Zealand to be bestowed with an individual status, after Te Urewera National Park and Whanganui River.