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The court cited the example of the New Zealand Whanganui River, which was also declared to possess full rights of a legal person. [ 18 ] This development of environmental personhood has been met with scepticism as merely announcing that the Ganges and Yamuna are living entities will not save them from significant, ongoing pollution.
The Whanganui River is a major river in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the country's third-longest river, and has special status owing to its importance to the region's Māori people . In March 2017 it became the world's second natural resource (after Te Urewera ) to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and ...
Five years ago, the Whanganui River was recognized as a living person in a groundbreaking New Zealand law. Ngahuia Twomey-Waitai, 28, walks into the Whanganui River and reaches down to splash ...
Manunui (Māori: Mananui) is a small Whanganui River settlement, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Taumarunui on State Highway 4, in New Zealand's King Country.It was once known as Waimarino, but John Burnand of the Ellis and Burnand sawmilling firm renamed it Manunui around 1905.
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The river is now called the Whanganui River. In September 1912 press reports said that: [1] [2] There will be a big Maori gathering shortly at Paranui, a place some 15 miles above Pipiriki, on the Wanganui River, to open a new native meeting-house. Several hundreds of Maoris from all parts of the district are expected to attend.
Looking down upon the Whanganui River, a paddle steamer ferry, and the town of Kaiwhaiki, c. 1910. Photograph taken by William Archer Price. Kaiwhaiki is a settlement 18 kilometres (11 mi) upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand. Kaiwhaiki in the 1840s was a small pā of a two to three dozen people. [1]
The woman, in her 30s, was able to convince him not to carry out his sick crime, leading Muller to tell the victim to get a dog before fleeing, prosecutors alleged.