The Whanganui River, located in the north island of New Zealand, has a special and spiritual importance for the Maori people. The New Zealand Parliament has just passed a bill which gives the ...

New Zealand, declare their inseverable connection to their ancestral river. The river rises in the snowfields of a trio of volcanoes in central North Island. The tribes say that a teardrop from ...

In 2017, New Zealand granted legal personhood to the Whanganui River. Since then, other nations have followed suit in an effort to protect the environment. Our coverage during coronavirus While ...

In what’s believed to be a world first, New Zealand ... Whanganui River valley. When colonists arrived, it was the most densely populated part of what is today called the North Island.

The Whanganui River on New Zealand's North Island will soon be given legal personhood.(Flickr/Kathrin and Stefan Marks/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The New Zealand government is planning on giving the country ...

About 90 minutes’ drive outside of Auckland lies a rural region of New Zealand alluringly dubbed the “Winterless North”. Northland stretches from Mangawhai in the south to the very tip of the North ...