Environment / Te Ao Maori

Whanganui River: 10 years of legal personhood

13:15 pm on 6 August 2024

Listen

A two-day symposium is celebrating 10 years since the signing of the Ruruku Whakatupua - The Whanganui Deed of Settlement has just wrapped up in Whanganui. 

Gerrard Albert had a lead role in the Treaty Settlement negotiations and discusses the landmark legal settlement and how it's changed the fortunes of the river and the land.   

Photo: 123rf