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  "path": "/news/22022026/new-zealand-indigenous-whale-rights-declaration/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T10:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://insideclimatenews.org",
  "tags": [
    "Justice & Health",
    "Politics",
    "Cetacean Translation Initiative",
    "He Whakaputanga Moana",
    "Indigenous",
    "Indigenous people",
    "Indigenous Peoples",
    "Maori",
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    "More-Than-Human Life Program",
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  "textContent": "In one of his final acts before his death in 2024, Māori King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero helped galvanize Pacific Indigenous leaders to sign a landmark declaration recognizing whales’ rights. Now that effort could shape national law: New Zealand legislators this month introduced a bill grounded in the declaration, affirming whales’ rights to migrate, maintain […]",
  "title": "How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws"
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