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New Zealand’s Whanganui River Gets Personhood Status

New Zealand’s Whanganui River Gets Personhood Status (via Environment News Service)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 13, 2012 (ENS) – New Zealand’s longest navigable river, the Whanganui, has been given “legal standing and an independent voice” under a framework agreement to settle the historical claims of indigenous people, the Whanganui Iwi. Although the agreement does…