Rona was inhabited for many years afterwards, but the entire population died in 1680 after rats reached the island, and a ship raided their food stocks. It was resettled, but again depopulated by around 1695, after which it remained home to one family until 1844. More isolated than St Kilda, it is the remotest island in the British Isles to have ever been permanently inhabited.
UNEP established the Regional Office for North America (RONA) in Washington, D.C. in October 2000.
RONA, in partnership with various public and private sector organizations, addresses environmental problems such as global climate change, land-based sources of marine pollution, toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes, sustainable production and consumption, and land and natural resource degradation.
RONA hosted an informal briefing on the PRI headed by project leaders.
NorthRona, often just called Rona, is a remote Scottish island in the North Atlantic.
It lies approximately forty miles north west of Cape Wrath and ten miles east of Sula Sgeir and is said to have been the residence of Saint Ronan in the eighth century.
Rona was inhabited for many years afterwards, but the entire population died in 1680 after rats reached the island, and a ship raided their food stocks.
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