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Detailed explanation-1: -New Zealand’s Whanganui river: First in the world to be given legal status. The Maori people had been fighting for the river to be recognized as a living entity for about 160 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ecosystem itself can be named as the defendant. A river in New Zealand has become the first in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a person. The New Zealand parliament passed the bill in 2017 recognizing the Whanganui River, in North Island, as a living entity.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River. The law declares that the river is a living whole, from the mountains to the sea, incorporating all its physical and metaphysical elements.

Detailed explanation-4: -With its thunderous rapids carving through a wild boreal forest in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, the Magpie River is well known to white water rafters from around the globe. What these travelers may not know is that the Magpie recently became the first river in Canada to be granted legal personhood.