Kapiti Island
By 1895, the government had begun considering making Kapiti Island into a wildlife reserve, due to the losses in native flora and fauna due to forestation across mainland New Zealand. Parata and his family members protested these plans, and in 1896 stated that they had no intention of selling the land to the government - by this time, Kapiti Island was the only part of the Ngāti Toa rohe still in Māori ownership. In 1897, the government passed the Kapiti Island Public Reserve Act, preventing land blocks on Kapiti Island being sold into private hands, in order to create a nature reserve in the future.