On a hilltop overlooking New Zealand's lush Whanganui River, Dan Steele is thinking about the future. Not just his future or ...

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and ...

In 2017 the Whanganui became the first river in the world to be recognised as a legal person, bringing closure to one of New Zealand’s longest-running litigations. By conferring a legal ...

Its turn as a Hollywood star is just one of the many lives lived by the Whanganui, New Zealand’s third largest river and its most navigable, flowing 290km through the North Island. It’s seen heated ...

Maori tribes use the concept of Te Awa Tupua, which considers a river as one integrated entity stretching from the mountains to the sea. In 2017, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Whanganui ...

In 2017, New Zealand recognized the Whanganui River as human, as part of a settlement with its local iwi. The bill recognizing the mountain's personhood was affirmed unanimously by Parliament's ...

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Whanganui Māori have a saying: Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au: I am the river, and the river is me. WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging ...

WHANGANUI, New Zealand >> The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and debris ...

"That’s how we see that river. It’s a part of us.” In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River. The law declares that the river is a ...