Environmental Degradation is related to the deterioration of the environment both in terms of quantity and extinction of some wildlife species and quality like air, water or land pollution.
Environmental degradation is one of the Ten threats officially cautioned by the High Level Threat Panel of the United Nations. WRI(the World Resources Institute), UNEP(the United Nations Environment Programme), UNDP(the United Nations Development Programme) and the World Bank have made public an important report on health and the environment worldwide on May 1, 1998.
Environmental Change and Human Health, a special section of World Resources 1998-99 in this report describes how preventable illnesses and premature deaths are still occurring in shockingly large numbers. If they have a chance to make vast improvements in human health, millions of people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. In these poorest regions of the world an estimated one in five children will not live to see their fifth birthday, primarily because of environment-related diseases. 11 million childhood have been dying every year worldwide - equal to the combined populations of Norway and Switzerland - mostly due to malaria, acute respiratory infections or diarrhoea, all illnesses that are largely preventable.
