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Kiingi Tuuheitia will attend the inaugural meeting of Traditional Pacific Leaders in Hawai'i in June where climate change and environmental protection are likely to be at the top of discussions.
Whales are people, too, according to the Indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands, who've acted to bestow personhood on whales. New Zealand's Maori.