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New Zealand Grants Legal Personhood to Sacred Mountain Taranaki Maunga

A mountain in New Zealand is recognized as a legal person, granting it rights and responsibilities like a human being.
The mountain, now called Taranaki Maunga, was acknowledged as sacred by the Māori people and has a legal personality named Te Kahui Tupua.
The law recognizes the mountain's theft from the Māori during colonization, affirming its significance to the community.
The recognition was celebrated as a release from 'the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate.

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Daily Express

The 8,200ft mountain now recognised as a person by New Zealand

The odd move makes Taranaki Maunga "a living and indivisible whole" with the full right and powers of a human.

1 month ago·United Kingdom

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VOA News

New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Maori

Taranaki Maunga is considered an ancestor by Indigenous people

1 month ago·United States

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Svenska Dagbladet

Sad mountain in New Zealand becomes a legal entity

A mountain in New Zealand can now call itself a person. A bitter dispute – with millennia of mythological heartache – has ended in a formal decision.

1 month ago·Stockholm, Sweden

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7NEWS Australia

A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s what it means

The mountain now has the same rights as a human being under a new law.

1 month ago·Australia

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Greek Reporter

Mountain in New Zealand Gets Same Legal Rights as a Person

The second-highest mountain on New Zealand’s North Island, Taranaki Maunga (Mountain), has been given the same legal rights as a human. Credits: Dave Young, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Taranaki Maunga, the second-highest mountain on New Zealand’s North Island, has been granted the same legal rights as humans. This is the third natural landmark in the country to gain the same rights and privileges as a human being. The mountain’s new rights…

1 month ago

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