In 2017, New Zealand granted legal personhood to the Whanganui River after a 140-year Māori campaign — recognizing it not as property, but as an ancestor with the rights of a legal person
In March 2017, a river in New Zealand stopped being property and became a person. On 20 March, Parliament passed the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act, which declares the Whanganui…
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