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 ...
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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.
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Pacific News Minute: New Zealand mountain recognized as a legal person
A mountain in New Zealand is considered to be an ancestor by Indigenous people and has been recognized as a legal person. A new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. HPR ...
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Taiming Zhang takes James Cook Hotel to tribunal after argument about Coke Zero v Coke No Sugar
James Cook refunded him the cost of his drink ... The tribunal also noted that if Zhang had been living in New Zealand it would have made him pay the hotel’s legal costs for defending the ...
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After Years Of Legal Action, A New Zealand Mountain Is Now Officially A Person
Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed ...
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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 ...
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A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters
But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...