New Zealand’s famous Mt. Taranaki has been granted similar legal rights to a person, sans the right to pay taxes or drive.
In a unanimous vote by the New Zealand Parliament on Jan. 30, the government agreed to compensate eight tribes around Taranaki for illegal land seizures in the 1800s, following almost a decade of negotiations between the Crown and representatives.
“The land in the national park owned by the Crown is to be vested in the legal personality. The land will also be inalienable (not able to be sold or otherwise disposed of), except in a very narrow set of circumstances,” according to the Taranaki Maunga [mountain] Collective Redress Bill....
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