Shay Gupta traveled from his home country of New Zealand to watch his favorite team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, in person.

New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island.

I didn't get to experience the crowd that much because Oklahoma City won by (25) points that day. They were pretty quiet from the start." Gupta flew back to New Zealand on Jan. 13, completing a ...