Te Urewera is the first natural feature in New Zealand to be recognised by law as a living person — government ownership of Te Urewera National Park was transferred to its legal guardians, the ...

Reservations will be required on weekends and holidays starting on July 11 and through the end of the season in mid-October, according to the park. Advance reservations are scheduled to be ...

In 2014, a world-first law brought an end to government ownership of Te Urewera National Park and recognised the Ngāi Tūhoe people as the rainforest’s legal guardians. It also recognised the ...

With this, the mountain has become the third natural feature in New Zealand to be bestowed with an individual status, after Te Urewera National Park and Whanganui River. Also Read: Viral Hack For ...

and Te Urewera National Park, according to Radio New Zealand. The Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill, which restores rights and protections to Taranaki Maunga, passed through Parliament on ...

This recognition makes Taranaki Maunga the third natural feature in the country to be accorded individual status, after the Whanganui River and Te Urewera National Park. Indigenous people view ...

The 2021 ruling blocked Enami EP, Ecuador’s national mining company ... a New Zealand court declared the mountainous area of Te Urewera – located on the North Island of the country ...

In 2017, the Whanganui watershed — termed Te Awa Tupua — made history as ... surprised many legal scholars by undoing the national park status that the region had been governed under since ...

A key part of this journey was reimagining Te Urewera as if it had not been disconnected as a national park: how Tūhoe and manuhiri would live in, make livelihoods with, and care for the land in ...

As part of the signing of the Tūhoe settlement in 2014, the former national park Te Urewera was granted legal personhood. In 2017, legal personhood for the Whanganui river was also part of a ...

In 2014, after 180 years of Tūhoe resistance, a groundbreaking New Zealand law granted legal personhood—with all its rights and responsibilities—to this rainforest, Te Urewera, a former national park ...